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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
well, i was just spit balling because things don't appear to be adding up.
locally we've been hearing for a long time that the city of chicago is losing children. CPS even closed 50 freaking schools a number of years ago due to plummeting enrollment, and CPS enrollment numbers continue to drop year after, and yet chicago's % of under 18's isn't really all that out of line with the national average, only 1.3 points lower, a far cry from a situation like SF where under 18's are 8.8 points below the national average.
so i'm just trying to make sense of it all.
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I’m thinking there was a huge imbalance between different parts of the city in the past that made the overall average low.
Suppose North side household sizes were more or less the same as today (perhaps even smaller) with more white couples and retirees than families. But the South and West sides were horrendously overcrowded with families.
And no matter how much was built in the Loop and North side, it couldn’t overcome the depopulation of the South.
Today, there is not a different family living in every single room of a building in the poor areas of the city, and we’ll hopefully never see that again in our lifetimes.
1950 U.S. Household Size: 3.54
1950 Chicago Household Size: 3.19
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