Irish Americans
Gael-Mheiriceánaigh (Irish) | |
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Irish Americans, % of population by state | |
| Total population | |
| 10,909,542 3.2%[1] Claim full Irish ancestry 38,597,428 11.6% Claim full or partial Irish ancestry (2020 census)[2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Significant populations in most urban areas of the United States,[3] but particularly New England (Boston • Rhode Island • New Hampshire • Middlesex • Worcester) • New York (New York City • Long Island • Upstate New York) • Pennsylvania (Scranton • Philadelphia • Pittsburgh[4] • Delaware Valley • Coal Region) • Midwestern United States (Chicago • Cleveland • Detroit • Milwaukee • Columbus) • California (Southern California • San Francisco) • Texas (Houston • DFW Area) • Florida • Baltimore • Delaware • DC Beltway • Phoenix • Seattle • Omaha Georgia Savannah, Georgia • Denver | |
| Languages | |
| Majority English (American English dialects); minority Irish | |
| Religion | |
| Catholicism and Protestantism[5] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Irish • Anglo-Irish • Irish-Traveller Americans • Scotch-Irish Americans • Irish Catholics • Irish Jews • Scottish Americans • Ulster Protestants • Manx Americans • English Americans • Cornish Americans • Welsh Americans • British Americans • Breton Americans • French Americans • Icelandic Americans • Faroese Americans • Spanish Americans • Portuguese Americans • Basque Americans • Galician Americans |
| Year | Number |
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| 1980[6] | |
| 1990[7] | |
| 2000[8] | |
| 2010[9] | |
| 2020[10] |
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Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh, pronounced [ɡeːlˠ ˈvʲɛɾʲəcɑːnˠi]) are ethnic Irish that live in the United States and are American citizens.[11]
- ^ "Census Bureau Releases 2020 Census Population for More Than 200 New Detailed Race and Ethnicity Groups". September 21, 2023. Archived from the original on October 12, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
- ^ "Census Bureau Releases 2020 Census Population for More Than 200 New Detailed Race and Ethnicity Groups". September 21, 2023. Archived from the original on October 12, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
- ^ "America's Most Irish Towns". Forbes.
- ^ G. Scott Thomas,"Census: Pittsburgh more than 10 percent Irish" bizjournals, March 16, 2009
- ^ "St. Patrick's Day Graph: Irish in America are Protestant, not Catholic". March 17, 2014.
- ^ "Rank of States for Selected Ancestry Groups with 100,000 or more persons: 1980" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ^ "1990 Census of Population Detailed Ancestry Groups for States" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. September 18, 1992. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ^ "Ancestry: 2000". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ^ "Total ancestry categories tallied for people with one or more ancestry categories reported 2010 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ^ "Census Bureau Releases 2020 Census Population for More Than 200 New Detailed Race and Ethnicity Groups". September 21, 2023. Archived from the original on October 12, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
- ^ "An overview of Irish immigration to America from 1846 to the 1900s". www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com. Retrieved June 26, 2023.