Quick Facts:

• West Ridge is best known for Devon Avenue and its Indian and Pakistani restaurants and shops.  It is, however, also a very diverse immigrant community with 33,391 residents being foreign born.
• West Ridge has the largest population of Arabs, Indians, Koreans, Pakistanis, Romanians and Russians of the 77 community areas in Chicago.
• West Ridge has a total population of 73,199 and the the general demographic breakdown for the area is 49% White, 25% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 7% African American  and 5% Mulitiracial.

Below is the demographic information for West Ridge’s foreign-born population:

Country of Origin	Population	How does it rank among other community areas in Chicago?
Bosnia	561	5
Columbia	1,077	3
China	835	5
Former Soviet Union	2,902	1
Former Yugoslavia	982	3
Guatemala	512	10
Indian	3,425	1
Korean	1,246	1
Middle East	4393	1
Pakistani	4,093	1
Philippines	1,711	3
Romania	835	1
Russia	1,111	1
Ukraine	1,468	2
Vietnam	1,048	1
Yugoslavia	421	2
All Other	6,771	–