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Morton Grove Census by the Numbers

Morton Grove Patch puts together the numbers for you to easily see the demographic changes.

Check out these charts to compare Morton Grove's numbers with nearby towns.

And in case you're thinking about brushing up on your language skills, take a gander at Morton Grove's long list of languages spoken other than English in schools.

Any interest in learning Farsi, Korean, Urdu or Spanish? You've come to the right place!

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The information used to create the charts came from the recently released U.S. Census Bureau figures for 2010, part of the government's audit of the nation's population every 10 years.

Comparison of racial demographics by percentage of population

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Race

Morton Grove Glenview Skokie Niles Des Plaines Cook County Illinois

Hispanic/Latino (of any race) 

6.5 5.8 8.8 8.7 17.2 24 15.8 White 62 79.3 55.5 71.6 68 43.9 63.7 Black/African American 1.2 1 7 1.3 1.6 24.4 14.3 Asian 27.9 12.4 25.4 16.6 11.3 6.1 4.5

 

Morton Grove and Niles Township racial demographics by percentage of population

Race

MG 2010 MG 2000 Change in 10 years Niles Twp 2010

Niles Twp 2000

Change in 10 years Hispanic/Latino (of any race) 6.5 4.4 +2.1%  8 5.1 +2.9% White 62 71 -9.0%  59.7 69.5 -9.8%  Black/African American 1.2 .6 +0.6%  4.8 2.9

+1.9%

Asian 27.9 22.1 +5.8% 24.6 19.9 +4.5%

Languages other than English spoken at Park View, Melzer and Golf grade schools by the number of students

Albanian (Gheg) 8 Albanian (Tosk) 4 Arabic 31 Armenian 8 Assyrian 70 Bisaya 3 Bosnian 12 Bulgarian 9 Cambodian 3 Chadchow/Tedchiu 1 Chinese (All dialects) 24 Croatian 5 Czech 1 Farsi (Persian) 4 French 1 German 1 Greek 48 Gujarati 73 Hebrew 4 Hiligaynon 1 Hindi 27 Hungarian 4 Igbo 1 Indonesian 5 Korean 48 Lithuanian 1 Macedonian 1 Malayalam 57

Mongolian

3 Montenegrin 3 Nepali 4 Nigerian 1 Filipino 31 Polish 62 Portuguese 1 Romanian 37 Russian 20 Serbian 16 Sindhi 2 Spanish 113 Tagalog 23 Tamil 3 Telagu 3 Thai 2 Turkish 1 Urkranian 3 Urdu 99 Vietnamese 47 Yoruba 2 Total 931

Charts assembled by Carrie Porter

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