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2015 Illinois Mapping LEP Populations in Your Community - Number by County

State or Territory
Year
2015
Map Level
county
Population Count Type
number
Text Version
Description of IL LEP Maps

IL Raw Count Map (Description)

This map illustrates the LEP counties of Illinois with pie charts of the top five LEP counties:

Cook County-Brown Shading

DuPage County-Orange Shading

Kane County-Orange Shading

Lake County-Orange Shading

Will County-Pale Orange Shading

Each county is color shaded to indicate the total number of limited English proficient (LEP) persons in the county. We have defined LEP persons as individuals five years and over who speak a language other than English at home and who have indicated that they speak English less than very well (LVW). For each of the top five LEP counties, we have provided a pie chart that breaks down the top five languages spoken in the county (according to the total number of each language spoken) with the remaining languages in a sixth category called “All Other Languages”.

Raw Counts:

The colors correspond to the total number of LEP individuals in the county as follows:

·        Pale White: (<=1K)

·        Light Yellow: (>1K AND <=10K)

·        Pale Orange: (>10K AND <=50K)

·        Orange: (>50K AND <=100K)

·        Dark Orange: (>100K AND <=250K)

·        Brown: (>250K AND <=750K)

·        Dark Brown: (>750K)

The counties in Illinois are shaded to indicate the number of limited English proficient (LEP) persons in the county. We have defined LEP persons as individuals five years or older who speak a language other than English at home and who have indicated that they speak English less than very well (LVW). The tables explain the raw count number and percentage of LEP persons by language spoken for Illinois’s top five counties.

Cook County

Total LEP (LVW): 721,924

Language

Spanish

Polish

Chinese

Arabic

Korean

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

432,008

70,911

35,792

16,062

15,779

151,372

% LEP LVW

60

10

5

2

2

21

 

DuPage County

Total LEP (LVW): 83,736

Language

Spanish

Polish

Chinese

Gujarati

Other Asian

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

38,776

7,033

5,617

3,806

3,226

25,278

% LEP LVW

46

8

7

5

4

30

 

Kane County

Total LEP (LVW): 72,324

Language

Spanish

Tagalog

Polish

Laotian

Other Slavic

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

62,314

1,499

1,094

723

662

6,032

% LEP LVW

86

2

2

1

1

8

 

Lake County

Total LEP (LVW): 68,677

Language

Spanish

Russian

Chinese

Korean

Polish

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

47,693

3,913

2,939

2,705

2,193

9,234

% LEP LVW

69

6

4

4

3

14

 

Will County

Total LEP (LVW): 49,408

Language

Spanish

Polish

Chinese

Other IndoEuropean

Gujarati

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

34,133

2,690

1,549

1,228

1,207

8.601

% LEP LVW

69

6

3

3

2

17

Each county in the State of Illinois is color shaded to indicate the total number of limited English proficient (LEP) persons in the county. We have defined LEP persons as individuals five years and over who speak a language other than English at home and who have indicated that they speak English less than very well (LVW). We have provided a pie chart that breaks down the top five languages spoken in the entire State of Illinois (according to the total number of each language spoken) with the remaining languages in a sixth category called “All Other Languages”. The table below explains the raw count number and percentage of LEP persons by language spoken for the State of Illinois.

State of Illinois

Total LEP (LVW): 1,109,874

Language

Spanish

Polish

Chinese

Korean

Tagalog

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

680,733

86,934

55,104

24,760

24,083

238,260

% LEP LVW

61

8

5

2

2

22