2012 Illinois Mapping LEP Populations in Your Community - Number by County

State or Territory

Illinois

Year

2012

Map Level

county

Population Count Type

number

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2012 Illinois Mapping LEP Populations in Your Community - Number by County - PDF

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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): 743,237

Language	Spanish	Polish	Chinese	Korean	Russian	All Other Languages
Raw Count LEP LVW	454,659	75,717	30,055	17,441	14,426	150,939
% LEP LVW	61	10	4	3	2	20

DuPage County

Total LEP (LVW): 85,585

Language	Spanish	Polish	Chinese	Gujarti	Other IndoEuropean	All Other Languages
Raw Count LEP LVW	40,494	6,806	5,445	4,093	3,303	25,444
% LEP LVW	47	8	6	5	4	30

Kane County

Total LEP (LVW): 79,282

Language	Spanish	Tagalog	Polish	Chinese	Laotian	All Other Languages
Raw Count LEP LVW	69,110	1,311	1,225	681	641	6,314
% LEP LVW	87	2	1	1	1	8

Lake County

Total LEP (LVW): 71,516

Language	Spanish	Russian	Korean	Chinese	Polish	All Other Languages
Raw Count LEP LVW	51,371	3,152	3,002	2,735	2,458	8,798
% LEP LVW	72	4	4	4	4	12

Will County

Total LEP (LVW): 46,892

Language	Spanish	Polish	Chinese	Other IndoEuropean	Tagalog	All Other Languages
Raw Count LEP LVW	31,489	3,614	1,706	1,200	1,095	7,788
% LEP LVW	67	8	4	2	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): 1,140,966

Language	Spanish	Polish	Chinese	Korean	Tagalog	All Other Languages
Raw Count LEP LVW	717,047	92,941	47,405	26,922	22,493	234,158
% LEP LVW	63	8	4	2	2	21

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