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Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metro Area Demographics

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metro Area is the 3rd most populous of 935 metro areas in the United States, with 9,447,442 residents across 6,923 square miles. That is about 1,365 people per square mile.

At the 2020 census

Population 9,447,442
Land area 6,923 sq mi
Density 1,365 / sq mi

Data: 2020 Census · American Community Survey 2024

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Counties in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metro Area area

Name Population Sq mi Per sq mi
Cook County, IL 5,273,615 944.9 5,581
DuPage County, IL 932,877 327.8 2,846
Lake County 714,359 443.6 1,610
County Will 696,355 836.9 832
Kane County, IL 516,522 519.4 995
County Lake 498,700 499.0 999
County McHenry 310,229 603.2 514
Porter County, IN 173,215 418.1 414
County Kendall 131,869 320.3 412
DeKalb County, IL 100,420 631.3 159
Grundy County 52,533 418.1 126
Jasper County 32,918 559.7 59
Newton County, IN 13,830 401.8 34

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