Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Census Tract

For my census tract, I typed in my area code. My area code is 60645. I am around a predominately Jewish community and also near an African American community. The statistics on the census tract shows that with a population of around 44,000, more than half (27,000) are Caucasian. About 5,000 are African American and 7,000 are Latino. I was mostly shocked by the number of Asians in the area, which is nearly 7,000. For the 4 1/2 years I've been living here, I see mostly Caucasians, but rarely wold I see Asians.
Another interesting fact is that about 16,500 are foreign born. If I had to take a guess, I would guess around 10,000 to be foreign born. This fact shows that immigration has made a huge affect on the population

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