Chicago’s population began to decline in the 1950s. However, it increased from 2,783,726 in 1990 to 2,896,016 in 2000.
According to the 2000 census, whites constituted 42 percent of the city’s population; blacks, 36.8 percent; Asians, 4.3 percent; Native Americans, 0.4 percent; and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, 0.1 percent. People of mixed heritage or not reporting race were 16.5 percent of inhabitants.
Hispanics, who may be of any race, represented 26 percent of the city’s population. In 2004, Chicago's population was estimated at 2,862,244.
Chicago is the center of a large metropolitan area spreading across three states, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the north to Gary, Indiana, in the southeast.
The population of the consolidated metropolitan statistical area increased from 8,115,000 in 1980 to 8,240,000 in 1990. It reached 9,157,500 in 2000. The percentage of minorities is lower in the metropolitan area than in the city.
Blacks account for only about one in five in the metropolitan region as a whole, and Hispanics represent approximately one in nine residents.
While the proportion of Hispanics is growing in the metropolitan area, black presence has remained mostly unchanged.
Almost every ethnic group found in the United States is represented in Chicago. In 2000 more people claimed Polish ancestry in Chicago than any other ancestry, followed by Irish and German.
More than 46 percent of the more than 629,000 foreign-born people now living in Chicago entered the United States between 1990 and 2000.
Spanish and Polish are the two most common languages spoken at home other than English.
According to the 2000 census, whites constituted 42 percent of the city’s population; blacks, 36.8 percent; Asians, 4.3 percent; Native Americans, 0.4 percent; and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, 0.1 percent. People of mixed heritage or not reporting race were 16.5 percent of inhabitants.
Hispanics, who may be of any race, represented 26 percent of the city’s population. In 2004, Chicago's population was estimated at 2,862,244.
Chicago is the center of a large metropolitan area spreading across three states, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the north to Gary, Indiana, in the southeast.
The population of the consolidated metropolitan statistical area increased from 8,115,000 in 1980 to 8,240,000 in 1990. It reached 9,157,500 in 2000. The percentage of minorities is lower in the metropolitan area than in the city.
Blacks account for only about one in five in the metropolitan region as a whole, and Hispanics represent approximately one in nine residents.
While the proportion of Hispanics is growing in the metropolitan area, black presence has remained mostly unchanged.
Almost every ethnic group found in the United States is represented in Chicago. In 2000 more people claimed Polish ancestry in Chicago than any other ancestry, followed by Irish and German.
More than 46 percent of the more than 629,000 foreign-born people now living in Chicago entered the United States between 1990 and 2000.
Spanish and Polish are the two most common languages spoken at home other than English.
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