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The Chicago metropolitan area has a large Indian American population. As of 2023, there were 255,523 Indian Americans living in the Chicago area, accounting for more than 2.5% of the total population and making them the largest Asian subgroup in the metropolitan region[1][2] and the second-largest Indian American population among US metropolitan areas, after the Indians in the New York City metropolitan area.[3] Of this population were estimated to be 169,159 immigrants, or 66.2% of the Indian ancestry population in the Chicago area being foreign-born.
As of 2020, Asian Indians make up approximately 2.0% of the entire population of Illinois. Indians make up the overwhelming majority - nearly 81.6% - of the South Asian population within Illinois, followed by Pakistanis (15.1%), Nepalis (1.2%) Bangladeshis (1.0%), Sri Lankans (0.9%), and Other (0.2%).[4] Between 2010 and 2020, the Asian Indian population of Illinois grew from 203,669 to 276,519, an increase of 36%.