[marothisu]

Posted in the general thread, but maybe it's better here

New ACS numbers are out, which means new community area populations for 2017. Lakeview is officially over 100K people now - 100,470 people. Near North, West, South, and the Loop together grew 4168 people from 2016 to 2017. That is 2.01% growth in a year - total population of over 211K now of those 4 areas. A big chunk of that was Near North at +2550 people, or about a 3% growth in that year.

Of the 77 community areas, 32 of them lost population while 45 of them gained population. Of the 32 that lost population, 7 of them lost less than 100 people each. Pullman for example lost 7 people - for many of these, the margin of error may cover it.

Top Growth CAs
1. Avondale: +7351 people (I think this is more of a correction considering the Census estimated Avondale lost 9704 people from 2015 to 2016 - so change from 2015 to 2017 is still -2353 people)

2. Near North Side: +2550 people
3. West Ridge: +2492 people
4. Belmont Cragin: +1801 people
5. Uptown: +1677 people
6. Norwood Park: +953 people
7. Garfield Ridge: +910 people
8. The Loop: +870 people
9. South Lawndale: +868 people
10. North Center: +847 people
11. Bridgeport: +843 people
12. Montclare: +792 people
13. East Side: +758 people
14. Clearing: +691 people
15. South Chicago: +662 people

Bottom CAs (losing population)
1. Austin: -2351 people
2. New City: -1532 people
3. Chicago Lawn: -1167 people
4. Englewood: -945 people
5. West Englewood: -869 people
6. West Town: -837 people
7. Woodlawn: -817 people
8. Irving Park: -811 people
9. West Elsdon: -722 people
10. O'Hare: -698 people
11. Greater Grand Crossing: -695 people
12. Logan Square: -679 people
13. Morgan Park: -657 people
14. West Lawn: -487 people
15. Rogers Park: -438 people


More to come..