Salvadoran Americans
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Salvadoran Americans (Spanish: salvadoreño-estadounidenses or estadounidenses de origen salvadoreño) are Americans of full or partial Salvadoran descent. As of 2021, there are 2,473,947 Salvadoran Americans in the United States,[2] the third-largest Hispanic community by nation of ancestry. According to the Census Bureau, in 2021 Salvadorans made up 4.0% of the total Hispanic population in the United States.[3]
Total population | |
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2,480,509 (2022 American Community Survey)[1][2] 0.75% of total U.S. population, 2021[2] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Greater Los Angeles, Houston, San Francisco Bay Area, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Dallas, New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, Greater Boston, Miami, Northern Virginia, Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte, Las Vegas Valley, Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers metropolitan area, San Diego | |
Languages | |
Spanish, English | |
Religion | |
Christianity (mostly Catholic, significantly Protestant) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Spanish Americans |
Salvadorans are the largest group of Central Americans of the Central American Isthmus community in the U.S.
The largest Salvadoran populations are in the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., which have been established since the 1970s and currently number in the hundreds of thousands, as well as other Central Americans such as Guatemalan and Honduran Americans.[4]
Salvadorans are concentrated in California (32% of the nationwide Salvadoran population), Texas (15%), Maryland (8%) and New York (8%).[5]