Haitian Americans

Haitian Americans

Total population
1,138,855 (2022)[1] 0.34% of the U.S. population (2019)[2]
Regions with significant populations
Majority concentrated in the metropolitan areas of Miami, Orlando, New York and Boston. Historical population (1800s) in the New Orleans area. Majority in states like Florida, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Georgia, and Pennsylvania Smaller numbers in other parts of the country, including Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, Louisiana and Texas
Languages
English, Haitian Creole, French
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism with considerable adherents of Protestantism · Mormonism · Jehovah's Witnesses · also Haitian Vodou · New Orleans Voodoo
Related ethnic groups
Haitians, West Africans, Haitian Canadians, French Americans, Louisiana Creoles, Afro-Haitians, Mulatto Haitians, White Haitians, Arab Haitians, Chinese Haitians, Indo-Haitians, African Americans

Haitian Americans (French: Haïtiens-Américains; Haitian Creole: ayisyen ameriken) are a group of Americans of full or partial Haitian origin or descent. The largest proportion of Haitians in the United States live in Little Haiti to the South Florida area. In addition, they have settled in major Northeast cities such as New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and in Chicago and Detroit in the Midwest. Most are immigrants or their descendants from the mid-late 20th-century migrations to the United States. Haitian Americans represent the largest group within the Haitian diaspora.

In 2021, the U.S. Census estimated that 1,138,855 people of full or partial Haitian descent lived in the United States.^[2] During the 1960s and 1970s, many Haitians emigrated to the U.S. to escape the oppressive conditions during the dictatorships of François "Papa Doc" and his son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Political unrest, economic strains and natural disasters have provided additional reasons for people to emigrate.