Census

The census track is very useful for finding out facts about your city. When I researched my hometown Dolton Illinois, I was not surprised by most of the statistics because the numbers match what I have seen of Dolton over the years. I am however astounded that the average family size is around three because from what I’ve seen families seem to be very large around my neighborhood. Another statistic that was mentioned in class was how females usually outnumber males regardless of the city or town people live in because females tend to live longer than males.

When I searched Dolton’s housing units, I seen that the property values are really low and the average income is about 20,000 dollars. This is once again no surprise for me because referring back to my last post on Cabrini-Green, I mentioned how all of the residents migrated to the south-suburbs which includes towns such as Calumet-City, South Holland, and Dolton. With these increasing population numbers, comes large poverty amongst families. After seeing this fact, I am hoping that a lot of negative things in my town can change for the better in the next census track.

Although I like the census track and I think it is very helpful with giving the state of Illinois a fair amount of representatives, I think that it lacks a couple of components. I believe that if the census track would be much more efficient if it listed other headings that didn’t just pertain to households. For instance, I would have liked to see the number of crimes committed in my city, the number of students attending college, and etc,