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Kankakee city is a Census place in IL. Its published county relationships are Kankakee County, Illinois. Use the service address to confirm county-based assignments; a postal city name alone does not establish a Census boundary.
Geography source: 2025 Census county relationships; 2025 Gazetteer. These boundaries do not establish an AnSer office or your business’s service territory.
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Kankakee city has an estimated 22,248 residents aged five and over in the 2020–2024 ACS. The table below breaks down home-language categories for this place; it does not measure your business’s callers.
Reported local estimates to compare with your caller records in Kankakee: Spanish: 4,851 ±551; Other Indo-European languages: 86 ±61; French, Haitian, or Cajun: 69 ±64. These are the largest point estimates among non-English home-language categories whose estimates exceed their margins of error. Differences have not been tested for statistical significance. Identify the actual caller language within grouped categories before discussing coverage.
| Language spoken at home | Estimated residents | Margin of error (±) |
|---|---|---|
| All residents aged 5 and over | 22,248 | 464 |
| Speak only English | 17,092 | 625 |
| Spanish | 4,851 | 551 |
| French, Haitian, or Cajun | 69 | 64 |
| German or other West Germanic languages | 37 | 42 |
| Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages | 35 | 40 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 86 | 61 |
| Korean | 10 | 23 |
| Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) | 8 | 15 |
| Vietnamese | 0 | 24 |
| Tagalog (including Filipino) | 9 | 13 |
| Other Asian and Pacific Island languages | 20 | 34 |
| Arabic | 0 | 24 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 31 | 36 |
Estimates have uncertainty; home language does not establish preferred call language or provider capabilities. Read the data definitions, limitations and planning method.
Source: Census table C16001 for Kankakee.
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