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States with the Highest Populations of Italian Americans

Back to Statistics of Italian Americans in the United States

* * All figures based on the United States Census 2000. See www.census.gov. Compiled by the Research Department of the National Italian American Foundation. * *


More than 1 Million

STATE AMOUNT PERCENTAGE
New York 2,737,146 14.4
New Jersey 1,503,637 17.9
California 1,450,884 4.3
Pennsylvania 1,418,465 11.6
Florida 1,003,977 6.3

More than 500,000

STATE AMOUNT PERCENTAGE
Massachusetts 860,079 13.5
Illinois 744,274 6.0
Ohio 675,749 6.0
Connecticut 634,364 18.6

More than 250,000

STATE AMOUNT PERCENTAGE
Michigan 450,952 4.5
Texas 363,354 1.7
Maryland 267,573 5.1
Virginia 257,129 3.6

More than 100,000

STATE AMOUNT PERCENTAGE
Arizona 224,795 4.4
Colorado 201,787 4.7
Rhode Island 199,077 19.0
Louisiana 195,561 4.4
North Carolina 181,982 2.3
Missouri 176,209 3.1
Wisconsin 172,567 3.2
Georgia 163,218 2.0
Indiana 141,486 2.3
Nevada 132,515 6.6
Oregon 111,462 3.3
Minnesota 111,270 2.3
New Hampshire 105,610 8.5


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