Chicago Population 2025

• Contents
• Population Ranking
• Languages
• Population by Age
• Population by Race
• Nativity by Place of Birth

Below is the Chicago population by year:

Chicago Metropolitan

Chicago Population Ranking & Density

Chicago is the third largest city in the United states by rank, According to US Population Census, April 1, 2020, Chicago population in 2020 is expected to be 2.74 Million, According to 2018 U.S Census estimates, 6.5% of Chicago population are under 5 years, 78.8% are above 18 years and older, 12% are 65 years and older people. Civilian Veterans are 71,067, Veterans by Sex in Chicago city are 92.1% are Male and 7.9% are Female. The population of below 5 years is 1,75,962, 18 years and above are 21,41,930, 65 years and over are 3,26,982. 71,067 are Veterans. Chicago population in 2023 is estimated to be 2.704 million, population in 2022 is estimated to be 2.701 million, and in 2021 is expected to be 2.69 million.

The distinct urban areas of Aurora, Joliet, Elgin and Waukegan were absorbed into the Chicago UA. According to the United Nations Urban Agglomeration Prospects report, Chicago UA population in 2020 is 8,861,640 (8.86 Million) with covering an area of 10,856 square miles (28,120 sq km) that includes 14 counties in the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Chicago Voting age Population
18 and over population of Chicago city are 1,848,388 Total housing units are 12,08,839 in Chicago city, out of these 874,520 are Male Voters and 973,868 are Female Voters.

U.S Census 2018 population according to Race are, 1,344,088 are White Americans, followed by 818,875 Black or African American, 8,158 are American Indian and Alaska Native out of these 694 are Cherokee tribals, 532 are Chippewa tribals, 60 are Navajo ad 106 Sioux tribal people.

Total Asian population is 175,109, out of these 38,870 are Asian Indians, 56,676 are Chinese, 30,973 are Filipino, 4,341 Japanese, 12,092 Korean, 9,628 Vietnamese and 22,529 are Other Asian nationals.

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander are 741 persons, out of these 247 are Native Hawaiian, 212 are Guamanian or Chamorro, 158 are Samoan, 124 are other Pacific Islanders. Total Hispanic/Latino are 788,140, out of these, 586,355 are Mexicans, 102,241 are Puerto Ricans and 9,244 are Cubans.

Chicago Language demographics

In terms of languages spoken at home, 64% speak English only, 24.4% speak Spanish, 6.1% speak Indo-European languages, 4% speak Asian and Pacific Islander languages and 1.6% are others.

1,615,380 Speak only English, 625,708 speak Spanish or Spanish Creole, 11,338 French (incl. Patois, Cajun), 1,858 French Creole, 6,704 Italian, 2,256 Portuguese or Portuguese Creole, 6,771 German, 719 Yiddish, 779 Other West Germanic languages, 795 Scandinavian languages, 6,910 Greek, 8,099 Russian, 49,464 Polish, 11,168 Serbo-Croatian, 9,095 Other Slavic languages, 457 Armenian, 1,881 Persian.

Statistics of Indian language speakers are, 5,053 speak Gujarati, 7,887 Hindi, 9,629 Urdu, 6,310 Other Indic languages, 11,264 Other Indo-European languages.

People from mid and east asia language speakers are, 44,590 speak Chinese, 2,851 Japanese, 7,708 Korean, 956 Mon-Khmer, Cambodian, 64 Hmong, 2,431 Thai, 231 Laotian, 21,561 Tagalog, 6,666 Vietnamese and 7,859 Other Asian languages.

1,516 speak other Pacific Island languages, 317 Other Native North American languages, 936 Hungarian, 13,655 Arabic, 1,857 Hebrew, 16,134 African language and 5,142 Other and unspecified languages.

Chicago Population by Age

According to 2019 US population estimates, population of Chicago by age is 2,693,959, out of these 1,311,431 are male, 1,382,528 are female, The sex ratio of Chicago is 95. The median age of the Chicago population is 35.2, Chicago population by age are, under 18 years is 555,424, 16 years and over is 2,197,345, 18 years and over is 2,138,535, 21 years and over is 2,044,096, 65 years and over is 451957. 48.7% are male, 51.3% are female, 20.6% are under 18 years old, 81.6% are 16 years and over, 79.4% are 18 years and over, 75.9% are 21 years and over, 13.5% are 65 years and over. There are total 1,218,078 housing units, The voting population of Chicago are 1,872,121, out of these 888,786 are male voters, 983,335 are female voters, 47.5% are male,52.5% are female.

Chicago Population by Race

White Population

White population in Chicago, Illinois are 1,369,124, percentage wise they are 50.8 percent.

Black Population

Black population in Chicago, Illinois are 782,431, Percentage wise they are 29.0 percent of people. African American refers to black population in Chicago, They are Black racial groups of Africa, includes Sub-Saharan African people, Kenyan, Nigerian, Carribbean such as Haitian and Jamaican.

Asian Population

Asian population in Chicago are 188,904 7.0 percent in total population, out of these 38,387 are Asian Indians, 66,490 are Chinese, 29,157 are Filipinos, 6,297 are Japanese, 10,495 are Korean, 9,637 are Vietnamese and 28,441 are other Asian nationals.

Hispanic Population

Hispanic population in Chicago, Illinois are 776,290. Percentage wise they are 28.8, out of these 568,935 are Mexican people, 97,758 are Puerto Ricans, 7,890 are Cubans, and 101,707 are other Hispanic or Latinos.

The racial makeup was 52.8% Non-Latino White, 22.1% were Latino, 16.7% were Non-Latino African Americans. 6.4% were Asian population, out of these 1.6% are Chinese, 1.1% are Indians, 1.1% Filipino, 0.4% Korean, 0.3% Pakistani, 0.3% Vietnamese, 0.2% Japanese, 0.1% Thai, Other ethnic groups such as Native Americans and Pacific Islanders are 2.0% of the population. Chicago has a Hispanic or Latino population of 28.9%, out of these 21.4% Mexican, 3.8% Puerto Rican, 0.7% Guatemalan, 0.6% Ecuadorian, 0.3% Cuban, 0.3% Colombian, 0.2% Honduran, 0.2% Salvadoran, 0.2% Peruvian.

Nativity by Place of Birth

Total Chicago native population is 2,146,254, out of these 1,601,206 born in the Illinois state and 498,590 born in other state in the United States. Foreign born or Population born outside the US are 547,705, out of these 270,061 are Naturalised US citizen, 59,319 are in Europe, 78,709 in Asia, 14,487 in Africa, 114,855 in Latin America and 2,185 in Northern America. Total Foreigners who are non US citizens living in Chicago are 277,644, out of these 37,794 are from Europe, 65,340 are from Asia, 12,644 from Africa, 158,030 are from Latin America and 2,693 are from Northern America.