Exhibit III-14.
Income of Persons with a Disability,
Lake County
Estimated Median Income
Total (all persons):
$37,730
With a disability:
$23,319
Male
$28,682
Female
$19,760
No disability:
$38,506
Male
$49,048
Female
$30,252
Source: ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Language
Seventy-two percent of the Lake County population speaks only English at home. Of
those who speak a language other than English at home, 10.4 percent speak English
less than “very well.” As noted in Exhibit III-15, the most commonly spoken non-English
languages are Spanish or Spanish Creole, Russian, Chinese, Korean, and Polish.
Exhibit III-15 on the following page lists the most commonly spoken non-English
languages.
Exhibit III-15.
Language Spoken at Home
Total Persons*
Speaks only English
Speaks another language**
Number
657,620
475,502
182,118
Percent
100.00%
72.31%
27.69%
Other language spoken
Number Percent
Spanish or Spanish Creole
108,906 16.56%
Arabic
Russian
9,692
1.47%
Hebrew
Chinese
6,957
1.06%
Thai
Korean
6,532
0.99%
Urdu
Polish
5,804
0.88%
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
Other Asian languages
4,794
0.73%
Other Pacific Island languages
Tagalog
4,725
0.72%
Vietnamese
German
4,276
0.65%
Scandinavian languages
Greek
3,011
0.46%
French Creole
French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
2,635
0.40%
Persian
Hindi
2,596
0.39%
Other and unspecified languages
Serbo-Croatian
2,265
0.34%
Other West Germanic languages
Gujarati
1,971
0.30%
African languages
Other Indo-European languages
1,960
0.30%
Laotian
Other Indic languages
1,912
0.29%
Armenian
Other Slavic languages
1,766
0.27%
Hungarian
Japanese
1,719
0.26%
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
Italian
1,385
0.21%
Yiddish
* Five years of age and older.
** This includes households who speak English less then "very well.”
Number Percent
1,094
0.17%
1,047
0.16%
1,006
0.15%
844
0.13%
682
0.10%
647
0.10%
641
0.10%
582
0.09%
574
0.09%
464
0.07%
377
0.06%
355
0.05%
218
0.03%
193
0.03%
166
0.03%
118
0.02%
116
0.02%
88
0.01%
Source: 2012 ACS 1-Year Estimates
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APPLIED REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS, INC.
LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS