Community Profile of Naperville, IL

Socio-economic analysis

I documented the community profile of Naperville which ultimately helped me in finding out the growth patterns in the said suburb and what areas need attention of policy makers.

For the population trend, I calculated it with the help of the Trend Extrapolation method with Polynomial (order 3) as the type of regression because the trend appears to be flexible and complex. Population change in Naperville from 1990 to 2020 shows a constant increase in the population ranging from 74,832 (1990) to 149,540 (2020).

Secondly, with the help of Urban Footprint software, I could run an analysis on the income level of most residents of the community. The results showed that it is relatively high compared to the surrounding areas. Residents are of upper middle to upper classes and they mostly live in single-family houses.