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Case Study: Community Assessment For Lake County
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Community Assessment for Lake County

Community Description and Data Interpretation
Lake County, Illinois is located on the shore of Lake Michigan and borders the state of Wisconsin, sitting in the northeast corner of the state of Illinois. Established March 1, 1839, Lake County consists of fifty-three villages, cities and townships. I have lived in Vernon Hills, one of the villages located in Lake County since 2005. Lake County is considered part of the Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area also referred to as the Chicagoland Area. Lake County is located north of and adjacent to Cook County, Illinois. According to the 2000 census, Lake County was the 31st richest county by per capita income. (Wikipedia, …show more content…
(Castellanos, 2010)
There are 42,012 individuals who receive food stamps which equates to 6% of the population receiving federal food assistance. (Frac.org, 2013). There are 11,942 recipients in Lake County receiving some form of public assistance. Of that 1,324 are considered aged, 6,053 are blind and disabled, 4,039 are age 18 to 64 and 1,850 are age 65 or older. $3,943 is the average amount of payments in thousands of dollars per recipient. (SSA, 2013).
Cultural Assessment
The median age of Lake County residents in 2010 is 37.6 years of age. Below is a listing of population by age, as well as may other cultural statistics according to the 2000 U.S. Census Bureau. (FactFinder2, 2013)
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Lake County, Illinois

Number
Percent
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school
185,035
100.0
Nursery school, preschool
16,850
9.1
Kindergarten
11,513
6.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8)
86,422
46.7
High school (grades …show more content…
(2013). County Demographic Overview. Retrieved November 24, 2013 from http://www.lakecountyil.gov/planning/planningandsupportservices/Pages/countydemographics.aspx.
4. Hargreaves, S. (2013). 15% of Americans Living in Poverty. Retrieved November 24, 2013 from http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/17/news/economy/poverty-income/.
5. Castellanos, L., Duggan, P., and Williams, J. (2010). Homeless Counts in Lake County. Retrieved November 24, 2010 from http://www.lakecountyil.gov/Planning/CommunityDevelopment/Documents/Informational/2010_Homelessness_Counts_LC.pdf.
6. (2013). County-by-County Review of SNAP/Food Stamp Participation. Retrieved November 24, 2013 from http://frac.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ny_times_snap_poverty_formatted.pdf.
7. (2013). SSI Recipients by State and County, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2013 from http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_sc/2011/ssi_sc11.pdf.
8. (2013). Advanced Search – Search all data in American FactFinder. Retrieved November 24, 2013 from http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk.
9. (2013). Lake County, Illinois (IL) Religion Statistics Profile - Waukegan, North Chicago, Highland Park, Mundelein, Gurnee. Retrieved November 24, 2013 from
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