HOW MANY PET CAT OWNERS ARE THERE IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO?

Hi,

According to The Humane Society of the United States        
"There are approximately 73 million owned cats in the United States.
Three in ten (or 34.7 million) U.S. households own at least one cat.
One half of cat-owning households (49%) own one cat; the remaining own
two or more. On average, owners have two (2.1) cats. There are a
similar number of owned female and male cats in the U.S. A slightly
greater percentage—51%—of owned cats are female."
http://www.hsus.org/ace/11831

The American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (APPMA)
255 Glenville Rd.
Greenwich, CT 06831
800-452-1225
http://www.appma.org/Default.htm
is the source of the statistics.

According to the latest US census data
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_ts=54004069590
there are 2,029,140 hoseholds in the Chicago metroploitan area.

.3 of 2,029,140 = 608,742.

So you have 608,742 households with at least one cat. Assuming that
only one person per household actually owns the cat, that would be
your answer. Without doing a door-to-door survey, that's about as
accurate as you'll get.

search terms used: Chicago cat owner statistics

By 2.1 cats per owner, that's a lot of cats :-)

bcguide-ga

The above answer assumes that the proportion of people who live in
Chicago and have cats is the same as the proportion of people who live
in the United States. As any statistician can tell you, that very well
may not be the case. Ethnic makeup, age demographics, income levels
and all sorts of other factors can affect such numbers.  A better
approach would be to find out how many cat licenses there are in
Chicago (if the city requires licenses, that is).  You just can't
assume that what's true for the U.S. as a whole is also true for
Chicago!