Almost 80 percent of those black Chicagoans who were born in other states come from the South. Paral says the vast majority of the city’s young blacks were born here, but older generations include many who arrived from the South during the period known as the Great Migration, roughly from 1910 to 1970. And only 21.4 percent of Chicago’s Asian-Americans (another segment of the population dominated by recent immigrants) were born in Illinois.īut 75 percent of Chicago’s African-Americans were born in Illinois. After all, more than 260,000 Chicagoans were born in Mexico, far outnumbering any other immigrant group. That’s below the city average, which isn’t surprising. And as far as white Chicagoans born in other states, more than half come from the Midwest.Ī little less than half of the city’s Hispanic or Latino residents were born in Illinois. How do the numbers vary for Chicago’s racial groups? About 55.8 percent of white Chicagoans (not including Hispanic whites) were born in Illinois. “I think: ‘Well, what’s the experience for whites, blacks, Latinos?’” “When people ask me questions about Chicago, I start to chop the city up in ways that tend to be illuminating,” Paral says. However, looking at census data for the entire city of Chicago doesn’t tell the whole story. In those places, roughly 3 out of 4 residents are living in the state where they were born - beating Chicago’s percentage. Other cities ranking high on the list include Peoria, Buffalo, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Detroit and Cleveland. On the other end of the spectrum, Jackson, Miss., has the highest rate of locally born people - 80.3 percent - among U.S. Only 1 out of 4 Las Vegas residents is a native Nevadan. Which cities have the lowest percentages of locally born people? Several of these places are in Nevada. That’s the sort of detail that these broad Census Bureau numbers don’t reveal. It could be that Dallas and Austin have a bunch of people born in other parts of Texas - a higher percentage than the number of downstate and suburban Illinois natives who live in Chicago. Austin has been one of the country’s fastest-growing cities, and it has twice as many people today as it did in 1985. How is that possible? Remember how Tracy said that everybody in those cities “is from somewhere else”? That isn’t just her imagination. And 52.3 percent of the people living in Austin are native Texans. In Dallas, 55.3 percent of the residents were born in Texas. But Chicago’s percentage isn’t actually all that higher than the figures for two of the cities where Tracy used to live. ![]() So, if you were expecting a statistic showing how special Chicago is - cue the sad trombone music - it looks like we’re actually pretty average.Īnd how does Chicago stack up against other cities? Well, Chicago does have more local natives than New York City (where the rate is 49.8 percent) and Los Angeles (43.7 percent). How does that compare with the rest of the country? Well, as it turns out, the percentage of Chicagoans born in Illinois is almost exactly the same as the national average of Americans born within their current state of residence, which is 58.7 percent. But it’s a good bet that a significant number of these people are native Chicagoans. Of course, that figure includes some people who were born in the suburbs or downstate. ![]() The key statistic here to answer Tracy’s question is 58.5 percent - that’s the percentage of Chicagoans born in Illinois. And 570,000 were immigrants from other countries. Half a million were born somewhere else in the U.S. Almost 1.6 million of those Chicagoans were born in Illinois. According to the most recent numbers (a five-year estimate for the years 2008 through 2012), Chicago had 2.7 million people.
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