West Chicago is a medium-sized city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 23,919 people and four constituent neighborhoods, West Chicago is the 90th largest community in Illinois.

West Chicago is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, West Chicago is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in West Chicago who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.50%), sales jobs (9.76%), and management occupations (8.18%).

Also of interest is that West Chicago has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

West Chicago Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in West Chicago who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 21.92% of adults in West Chicago have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in West Chicago in 2000 was $19,287, which is middle income relative to Illinois, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $77,148 for a family of four. However, West Chicago contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

West Chicago is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call West Chicago home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in West Chicago is White, followed by Asian. West Chicago also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 47.90% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in West Chicago include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.

Foreign born people are also an important part of West Chicago's cultural character, accounting for 34.07% of the city's population.

The most common language spoken in West Chicago is English. Some people also speak Spanish.