Cuban Americans

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Cuban Americans

Americans with Cuban ancestry by state as of the 2010 US census
Total population
2,435,573[1][2] 0.73% of the U.S. population (2022)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Over 70% concentrated in Florida: especially South Florida/Miami area, also Tampa Bay area Significant longstanding numbers in California, Texas, New Jersey, New York and Georgia. Growing populations in Nevada (especially in Las Vegas) and Kentucky (especially in Louisville),[3][4][5][6] as well as smaller growing populations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
Languages
Spanish (Cuban Spanish) • English • Cubonics • Spanglish • Lucumí
Religion
Predominantly: Roman Catholicism (49%) Minority: Protestantism (16%), irreligion (26%)[7]
Related ethnic groups
Spaniards, Afro-Cubans, Latino Americans, Cuban Jews, White Hispanic and Latino Americans, West Indian Americans, Spanish Americans, Floridanos, Isleños

Cuban Americans (Spanish: cubanoestadounidenses^[8] or cubanoamericanos^[9]) are Americans who immigrated from or are descended from immigrants from Cuba, regardless of racial or ethnic origin. As of 2023, Cuban Americans were the third largest Hispanic and Latino American group in the United States after Mexican Americans and Stateside Puerto Ricans.^{[citation needed]}

Many metropolitan areas throughout the United States have significant Cuban American populations.^[10] Florida (2,000,000 in 2023) has the highest concentration of Cuban Americans in the United States. Over 1,200,000 Cuban-Americans reside in Miami-Dade County, where they are the largest single ethnic group and constitute a majority of the population in many municipalities.^[11][12][13] Florida is followed by Texas (140,482), California (100,619), New Jersey (97,842), and New York (74,523).^[11]

Greater Miami has by far the highest concentration of Cuban Americans of any metropolitan area, followed by New York City; Tampa, Florida; Union County and North Hudson, New Jersey areas, particularly Union City, Elizabeth, West New York, Houston, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois.^[10] With a population of 181,250, the New York metropolitan area's Cuban community is the largest outside Florida. Nearly 70% of all Cuban Americans live in Florida.^[13]