Puerto Rican American
| Total population | |
|---|---|
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5,372,759 1.7% of the U.S. population (2015) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, with growing populations in Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Delaware, Rhode Island, Maryland, North Carolina, California, Hawaii, and Wisconsin, among others. | |
| Languages | |
| Spanish and English | |
| Religion | |
| majority Protestant and Roman Catholic, minority African diasporic religions | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Criollos, Mestizos, Mulattos, Taíno, African people, Europeans |
A Stateside Puerto Rican, also ambiguously Puerto Rican American (Spanish: puertorriqueño-americano,puertorriqueño-estadounidense) is a seldom used term for a resident of the United States who was "born in Puerto Rico or who traces their family ancestry to Puerto Rico."
Puerto Ricans, either born in the island or in the states, are American citizens. At 10 percent of the Latino population in the United States, Puerto Ricans are the second largest Latino group nationwide, and comprise 1.5% of the entire population of the United States. Although the 2010 Census counted the number of Puerto Ricans living in the United States at 4.6 million, more recent estimates show the Puerto Rican population to be over 5 million, as of 2012.
Despite newer migration trends, New York City continues to be home by a significant margin to the largest demographic and cultural center for Puerto Rican Americans on the mainland United States, with Philadelphia having the second largest community. The portmanteau "Nuyorican" refers to Puerto Ricans and their descendants in the New York City metropolitan area. A large portion of the Puerto Rican population in the United States resides in the Northeast region and Florida, though there are also significant Puerto Rican populations in the Chicago metropolitan area and the South Atlantic region stretching from Maryland to Georgia, and other states like Ohio, Texas, and California, among others.
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