Another zip code that experienced a high population loss is West Lawn, Chicago Lawn , which has the highest number of residents in Chicago with , residents. That is after about 1, left those communities in The other 15 zip codes that experienced a population loss totaling 9, include neighborhoods in the Loop, the Near North Side and the predominantly Hispanic Belmont Cragin neighborhood , where 2, residents left in , the third highest in the city that year.
Population declines in many neighborhoods show that it is a citywide trend, but the biggest concern remains among Black communities, which have been shedding residents for years because of persistent gun violence that has killed thousands of residents. The Crusader analysis also revealed that some Black neighborhoods gained residents in They include South Shore , which added residents to its 46, population in In zip code , which includes South Chicago, East Side, Avalon Park, Calumet Heights and Deering, about 1, new residents were added to the 82, population, the sixth largest in the city.
In Bronzeville, numerous affordable housing developments and rising property values have occurred in the last five years as more white and Asian residents move further south. Monday, October 25, Gary Crusader. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. Home Chicago Chicago lost nearly 18K residents in Black neighborhoods in one year Chicago Featured Local News.
Almost a quarter of those defined metropolitan areas experienced population loss between and , according to Census data. The Census defines the Chicago metropolitan area quite expansively, taking in not just Chicago and Cook County but eight other counties in Illinois as well as four in Indiana and one in Wisconsin.
That said, some other still sizable metropolitan areas, including those surrounding Pittsburgh, Pa. None of the major cities her spokeswoman cited, for instance, gained population by even a full percentage point last year, while Chicago fell by just 0. That makes the difference in their rate of change relatively nominal. Lightfoot does seem to find more solid ground in highlighting how an income gap may be playing a role in which Chicago-area residents decide to stay or go.
But the planning agency says it has not conducted research into links between population loss and taxes, which is the connection Lightfoot is trying to make. It could be tempting to cut Lightfoot some rhetorical slack in her quest for the mayoralty.
She keeps repeating an incorrect statement that is wrong whether taken literally or figuratively. The Chicago metropolitan area is far from the only one in the country to lose population last year, according to the Census. Experts also cast doubt on the existence of any evidence to back up the other beat of her claim, that lower-income Chicago residents were leaving because of high taxes. We rate her claim Mostly False. While he found the overall cost of living in Texas much lower — there is no state income tax and fewer parking fees due to more open space — he said his salary increased by 50 percent because his training was more in demand here.
Of counties in Illinois, only 16 experienced population growth from to , and only 11 have had net gains so far this decade, said Brian Harger, research associate at the Center for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University.
After several decades of modest growth, the state population began to drop after , with a net loss of more than , people since then, he said. Downstate metro areas — counties that surround an urban core of at least 50, people, such as Moline in the Quad Cities, Peoria and Bloomington — are similarly experiencing larger net migration deficits that have turned population gain to loss, census data show.
From to , downstate metro areas added ,residents, mostly driven by gains in migration. But in the last seven years, those areas have lost a third of that gain, about 43, people. Because Cook is such a large county, the number of residents lost is less important than the percent change, he said.
People were using the loss of population here … as a hook to hang their favorite issue on. They would say it was because of taxes, or because of this and that. Illinois also risks losing as many as two congressional seats if this once-in-a-decade count shows enough of a population decline, with ramifications for long-term political representation, according to a report from the Illinois Complete Count Commission. But then the reverse is true.
So the concern is both ways. Norman Walzer, senior research scholar at the Center for Governmental Studies at NIU, who has studied economic development and public finance in rural areas for almost 50 years, noted that these parts of the state are already dealing with lack of access to health care.
Dwindling populations also place a strain on local government finances, Walzer said. Population decline can tear at the social fabric of the hardest-hit communities, particularly when businesses shut down and local schools close or merge, said Kathleen Cagney, director of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago.
An aging population with less growth and stagnating birthrates shifts more of the economic burden onto younger, working folks, she added. Because people are living longer, many of those people are not fully engaged in the labor market. Skip to content. The couple moved from Naperville to Texas in Armando L. Data: Charts of metro areas that gained and lost the most people and how the Chicago area compares.
New census data shows which metro areas gained and lost population between and Apr 18, at AM. Not just migration.
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