New demographics for Chicago (Humboldt, Time: big house, neighborhood, living in)

[Lookout Kid]

The U.S. Census releases "estimates" each year. That's what the 2009 numbers reflect. The problem is that these estimates are notoriously faulty.

[williepotatoes]

Originally Posted by Chicagoland60426

Most move to the suburbs/exurbs.

That may be so, but it doesn't jive with what I see on the streets. The NW side alone has seen a large scale influx of Hispanics everywhere from Portage Park and Jefferson Park to Dunning and even the O'hare corridor just in the last 10 years.

[MannheimMadman]

Originally Posted by williepotatoes

That may be so, but it doesn't jive with what I see on the streets. The NW side alone has seen a large scale influx of Hispanics everywhere from Portage Park and Jefferson Park to Dunning and even the O'hare corridor just in the last 10 years.

Addding to the areas which you have mentioned - places like Clearing and Garfield Ridge.

[williepotatoes]

Originally Posted by MannheimMadman

Addding to the areas which you have mentioned - places like Clearing and Garfield Ridge.

Yeah, the SW side has probably gone from majority Hispanic to "overwhelmingly" Hispanic in the last 10-15 years. Latinos are far and away the largest immigrant group coming here these days and The SW side also has the most affordable housing in the city.

[jakebosco70]

Originally Posted by Chicagoland60426

My theory on that is the SW/south side is losing white population, while some areas on the northside may saw an increase. It still wasn't enough to see a positive change in the white population.

I completely agree with you. I'm from the south suburbs, and we've seen a number of families relocating from Morgan Park, which has been becoming less white (and more black) for a number of years now. Also, the Scottsdale/Clearing neighborhoods used to be nearly all polish and are now becoming more hispanic. Any of the gains in white population the northside, westtown, and near southside have been seeing are basically cancelling out with the demographic trends of the southwest side. In addition, I also think the southeast side and Hegewisch neighbrohoods have been changing quite a bit in recent years.

[SwisherSweet1]

Those number of the US census are WRONG! There just guesstimates.....not a real population count.Don't rely on estimates becuase they're just estimates. Here are some more estimates from 2008 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. They predicted Chicago grew not lost people.

2008 Chicago population-2,986,974

btw us cenus predicted in the 90s Chicago would lose people and they were wrong it grew.Wait till the numbers come out.

[paytonc]

Originally Posted by Chicagoland60426

City-Data recently updated the stats for some cities

Over the past 10 years, gentrification has been talked about a lot and yuppies(mostly whites) moving to the city. Oh Really? (...)

2009

pop. 2,851,268

Black- 936,505(34.2%)
White non hispanic- 857,989(31.3%)
Hispanic- 770,386(28.1%)
Asian- 132,828 (4.8%)
mixed- 27,649(1%)
Indigenous- 3,434(0.1%)

Except... the percentages for those numbers should be: 32.8% Black, 30.1% White, etc. Something's amiss.

As others pointed out, gentrification is about class, not race. Richer (or actually, better-educated) people have fewer children and have them later in life. Therefore, population counts are a singularly poor way of looking at gentrification, which often actually involves substantial population declines as singles/couples displace families. (Wicker Park's population density has declined by about 80% since its WW1-era peak, but it's probably even busier today since people are more than 5X wealthier.)

[PulSamsara]

Originally Posted by williepotatoes

I have a strong feeling that those Hispanic numbers are faulty. It's hard to believe that in the last 9 years, the Latino population has only increased by 17,000.

I think my neighbors have added 17000 children in the past decade.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by PulSamsara

I think my neighbors have added 17000 children in the past decade.

I do not envy you.

[Chicago60614]

Anyone notice if you count up the numbers in the 2000 totals they are 50,000 over the 2,896,000......and if you count the 2009 numbers they are 122,000 short of the 2,851,000??