Chicago Foreign-Born Residents by Country of Origin

May 02, 2025

We can get a sense of international immigration flows by looking at the people living in Chicago who were born in other countries between 2005 and 2024. Increases in these populations are due to immigration, declines are due to emigration and deaths.

Fourteen foreign countries each contribute more than 1% of the 2020 Chicago foreign-born population: Mexico, China, Poland, India, Philippines, Guatemala, Ecuador, Nigeria, South Korea, Vietnam, Ukraine, Colombia, Pakistan, and Canada.

The number of Chicago residents born in Mexico has been declining, but they still make up the vast plurality of Chicago’s foreign-born residents.

Here are the trends for the other 13 countries.