Jamaican Americans
Jamaican Americans are an ethnic group of Caribbean Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry. The largest proportions of Jamaican Americans live in South Florida and New York City, both of which have been home to large Jamaican communities since the 1950s and 60s. There are also communities of Jamaican Americans residing in Connecticut, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, and California.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1,234,336 (2022) 0.37% of the U.S. population (2022) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Majority in New York, Florida, Connecticut, Georgia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey Smaller numbers in other parts of the country, including North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, Texas and California | |
| Languages | |
| English (American English, Jamaican English), Jamaican Patois | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Protestantism. Some adherents of Catholicism, Rastafari, and other faiths. | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| British Jamaicans, Jamaican Canadians, Jamaican Australians, Afro-Jamaicans, Chinese Jamaicans, Indo-Jamaicans, European Jamaicans, Lebanese Jamaicans, Afro Americans, Hakka Americans, West Africans |
The vast majority of Jamaican Americans are of black African-Caribbean descent, smaller numbers are of full or partial Indian Jamaican, Chinese Jamaican, European and Lebanese descent.
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