Chicago Household Income and Education Stats (Lincoln, Washington: schools, universities, statistics)

[OKParker]

Almost every single of the 77 community areas gained $100K+ households except for 5 (Washington Park, East Garfield Park, O'Hare, Hegewisch, and Morgan Park).

Largest Changes in $100K+ Households 2016 to 2017
1. Near North Side: +1515 households (+6.23%)
2. West Town: +1460 households (+9.79%)
3. Logan Square: +1078 households (+11.93%)
4. Lake View: +1051 households (+4.88%)
5. The Loop: +814 households (+8.95%)
6. Near West Side: +723 households (+6.54%)
7. Uptown: +719 households (+11.28%)
8. Lincoln Square: +718 households (+12.76%)
9. Norwood Park: +593 households (+10.16%)
10. Lincoln Park: +566 households (+3.64%)
11. Belmont Cragin: +542 households (+16.46%)
12. Portage Park: +500 households (+9.1%)
13. Avondale: +484 households (+19.82%)
14. Edgewater: +481 households (+8.21%)
15. Irving Park: +471 households (+9.4%)
16. Near South Side: +455 households (+7.7%)
17. North Center: +431 households (+6.08%)
18. Garfield Ridge: +393 households (+11.04%)
19. Bridgeport: +392 households (+18.63%)
20. Lower West Side: +349 households (+26.8%)
21. Edison Park: +330 households (+16.79%)
22. Dunning: +307 households (+7.85%)
23. Albany Park: +275 households (+7.07%)
24. Humboldt Park: +264 households (+16.97%)
25. South Shore: +246 households (+14.46%)

Some areas of town that aren't on the radar of high earners but they had some sizable increases relatively outside of the top 25

Austin: +234 households
Auburn Gresham: +233 households
West Englewood: +200 households
West Pullman: +138 households
Woodlawn: +137 households


Near North, South, West, and the Loop together had an increase of 3507 households earning $100K+ from 2016 to 2017, which was a 6.96% increase.

Top community areas for $100K+ households, 2017
1. Near North Side: 25,846 households
2. Lake View: 22,575 households
3. West Town: 16,374 households
4. Lincoln Park: 16,125 households
5. Near West Side: 11,776 households
6. Logan Square: 10,114 households
7. The Loop: 9910 households
8. North Center: 7523 households
9. Uptown: 7091 households
10. Norwood Park: 6431 households
11. Near South Side: 6365 households
12. Lincoln Square: 6344 households
13. Edgewater: 6337 households
14. Portage Park: 5995 households
15. West Ridge: 5673 households
16. Irving Park: 5480 households
17. Dunning: 4220 households
18. Albany Park: 4166 households
19. Garfield Ridge: 3954 households
20. Belmont Cragin: 3835 households
21. Forest Glen: 3731 households
22. Austin: 3559 households
23. Ashburn: 3522 households
24. Beverly: 3466 households
25. Rogers Park: 3445 households

Top community areas for $100K+ households by percentage, 2017
1. Forest Glen: 54.96% of all households
2. North Center: 51.93%
3. The Loop: 51.57%
4. Lincoln Park: 49.87%
5. Edison Park: 49.48%
6. Near South Side: 47.37%
7. Near North Side: 46.86%
8. Mount Greenwood: 46.13%
9. Beverly: 45.17%
10. West Town: 44.1%
11. Lake View: 42.8%
12. Near West Side: 41.82%
13. Norwood Park: 38.39%
14. Lincoln Square: 34.67%
15. Logan Square: 34.2%
16. Garfield Ridge: 32.47%
17. Jefferson Park: 31.64%
18. Ashburn: 27.13%
19. Irving Park: 27.08%
20. Dunning: 27.02%
21. North Park: 26.83%
22. Portage Park: 26.42%
23. Albany Park: 25.15%
24. Kenwood: 25.04%
25. Uptown: 24.17%

[OKParker]

Onto educational attainment (4 year college or more)..Out of 77 community areas, only 15 of them lost college educated people from 2016 to 2017. Of those, 9 lost less than 100 people each.

Community Area in Chicago by Educational Attainment Change 2016 to 2017, 25+ years of age
1. West Town +2002 people (+4.92%)
2. Near North Side +1964 people (+3.44%)
3. Logan Square +1614 people (+6.15%)
4. Uptown +1237 people (+5.05%)
5. The Loop +1143 people (+5.60%)
6. Bridgeport +1115 people (+17.63%)
7. Lincoln Park +1112 people (+2.86%)
8. Avondale +1028 people (+13.42%)
9. Lincoln Square +862 people (+4.44%)
10. Edgewater +860 people (+3.61%)
11. West Ridge +845 people (+4.35%)
12. Norwood Park +818 people (+7.08%)
13. Portage Park +733 people (+6.04%)
14. Lower West Side +679 people (+11.78%)
15. Irving Park +653 people (+4.49%)
16. Near South Side +566 people (+4.19%)
17. North Center +511 people (+2.92%)
18. Hermosa +429 people (+23.38%)
19. Austin +378 people (+4.59%)
20. Lake View +375 people (+0.62%)
21. Douglas +368 people (+6.68%
22. Near West Side +362 people (+1.30%)
23. South Shore +356 people (+4.94%)
24. Chatham +345 people (+7.17%)
25. Brighton Park +343 people (+15.08%)


Near North, West, South, and the Loop combined increased by 4035 people aged 25+ with a bachelors degree or higher, which is a 2.53% increase.

Community Area in Chicago by Educational Attainment Percentage, 2017, 25+ years of age
1. Lincoln Park: 83.48%
2. Lake View: 79.61%
3. The Loop: 79.5%
4. Near North Side: 79.19%
5. Hyde Park: 74.73%
6. Near South Side: 73.39%
7. North Center: 70.81%
8. Near West Side: 66.67%
9. West Town: 65.62%
10. Lincoln Square: 62.82%
11. Forest Glen: 59.44%
12. Kenwood: 56.09%
13. Uptown: 55.88%
14. Edgewater: 55.26%
15. Beverly: 55.04%
16. Logan Square: 52.67%
17. Edison Park: 47.49%
18. North Park: 46.68%
19. Rogers Park: 42.4%
20. Douglas: 42.14%
21. West Ridge: 39.71%
22. Norwood Park: 39.5%
23. Irving Park: 39.27%
24. Mount Greenwood: 35.63%
25. Jefferson Park: 35.58%

Near North, West, South, and the Loop combined has a bachelors degree or higher (25+ years of age) percentage of 75.31. If you look at 2016, then it was at 74.70%.

Community Area in Chicago by Educational Attainment, 2017, 25+ years of age
1. Lake View: 60,597 people
2. Near North Side: 59,042 people
3. West Town: 42,660 people
4. Lincoln Park: 39,997 people
5. Near West Side: 28,287 people
6. Logan Square: 27,848 people
7. Uptown: 25,728 people
8. Edgewater: 24,658 people
9. The Loop: 21,571 people
10. Lincoln Square: 20,282 people
11. West Ridge: 20,253 people
12. North Center: 18,037 people
13. Rogers Park: 16,146 people
14. Irving Park: 15,199 people
15. Near South Side: 14,075 people
16. Portage Park: 12,873 people
17. Hyde Park: 12,722 people
18. Norwood Park: 12,374 people
19. Albany Park: 11,624 people
20. Avondale: 8688 people
21. Austin: 8605 people
22. Beverly: 8015 people
23. Forest Glen: 7869 people
24. Dunning: 7630 people
25. South Shore: 7567 people


Near North, West, South, and the Loop combined have 122,975 people aged 25+ with a bachelors degree or higher.


Interestingly Near North, Near West, Near South, The Loop, Lakeview, Uptown, Lincoln Park, Lincoln Square, North Center, Logan Square, and West Town together have a population that's only about 10,000 people less than the entire city of Boston. The entire city of Boston's college educational attainment percentage is 48.2%. These 11 areas of Chicago's educational attainment percentage is 70.36%

[Gemini1963]

Originally Posted by OKParker

Interestingly Near North, Near West, Near South, The Loop, Lakeview, Uptown, Lincoln Park, Lincoln Square, North Center, Logan Square, and West Town together have a population that's only about 10,000 people less than the entire city of Boston. The entire city of Boston's college educational attainment percentage is 48.2%. These 11 areas of Chicago's educational attainment percentage is 70.36%

If this is accurate, this summary is really amazing to me, especially given how many educational institutions there are in the Boston area. Thanks for posting this.

[emathias]

Originally Posted by Gemini1963

If this is accurate, this summary is really amazing to me, especially given how many educational institutions there are in the Boston area. Thanks for posting this.

It's not like Chicago doesn't have education institutes. If using lists on Wikipedia, the Chicago area has more institutes of higher education than the Boston area. I count 39, across all categories, for the Boston area, and over 77 in Chicagoland (and that's just counting the Chicago City Colleges as a single entity instead of as separate ones despite the fact their campuses tend to specialize in different subjects, and ignoring for-profit schools). Some may question including community colleges, but I figure why not, so I counted the City Colleges in Chicago and places like Bunker Hill CC in the Boston area.

[Gemini1963]

Originally Posted by emathias

It's not like Chicago doesn't have education institutes. If using lists on Wikipedia, the Chicago area has more institutes of higher education than the Boston area. I count 39, across all categories, for the Boston area, and over 77 in Chicagoland (and that's just counting the Chicago City Colleges as a single entity instead of as separate ones despite the fact their campuses tend to specialize in different subjects, and ignoring for-profit schools). Some may question including community colleges, but I figure why not, so I counted the City Colleges in Chicago and places like Bunker Hill CC in the Boston area.

Yes, I definitely knew that there are a LOT of educational institutions around Chicago, but I admit I did not know it was almost double what's in and around Boston.

[Vlajos]

The trend apparently continues as Chicago gains highly educated and high earning folks while losing lower income less educated people.

[wase4711]

who compiles these "statistics", and, how can their numbers be verified as factual??

[Drewjdeg]

Chicago does well when it comes to attracting and retaining college graduates.

I also read this recently.

One out of 10 computer science degrees in the nation comes from Illinois colleges and universities, according to the index. California is the only state that churns out more.

The number of computer science graduates has been growing nationally, but Illinois’ annual growth of 21.5 percent outpaces the national average of 19.8 percent.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.govte...ded.html%3fAMP

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by wase4711

who compiles these "statistics", and, how can their numbers be verified as factual??

The US census.

[wase4711]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

The US census.

link to all those numbers/site that shows that info please?