Word is there’s some sort of election going on today, so it’s fitting that the latest mashup of Census data I’ve seen plots out population changes from 2000 to 2010 by ward.
The map, created by Rob Paral and Associates, allows users to see total changes (shown in this image — green shows growing populations, red shows shrinking populations) or filter by race. Paral also has tabulated, ward-by-ward numbers on his website and in a downloadable spreadsheet.
Thanks to Levois at The Sixth Ward for the find.
Fascinating. Thank you for breaking down this dense data. I live in Logan Square and from looking at the detail of that neighborhood and comparing it with other wards, my hypothesis is that immigrant neighborhoods have suffered from gentrification. Ethnic families, largely Latinos, have been pushed to the city fringes and likely to the near suburbs. They have been replaced by white individuals without families, resulting in a population drop in Logan Square. There 9000 Latinos left and were replaced by less than 2000 whites… Interesting! Thanks for the data.