Jamaican Americans

Jamaican American or Jamerican are an ethnic group of Caribbean Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry.

Jamaican Americans
Total population
1,091,482[1] 0.3% of the U.S. population (2013)
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, Islam and other faiths.
Related ethnic groups
Jamaican British, Jamaican Canadians, Chinese Jamaicans, Jamaicans of African ancestry, Indo-Jamaicans, Jamaican Australians, Afro Americans, Hakka Americans, West Africans

References

Results Archived 2020-02-12 at Archive.today American Fact Finder (US Census Bureau)

Jamaican diaspora
Australia Brazil Canada Cuba Ethiopia Nigeria United Kingdom United States

Caribbean Americans
Anglo-Caribbean	Antiguan and Barbudan Bahamian Barbadian Belizean Garifuna Bermudian Dominican (Dominica) Grenadian Guyanese Jamaican Kittian and Nevisian Saint Lucian Trinidadian and Tobagonian Vincentian
Americo-Caribbean	Puerto Rican Virgin Islands
Franco-Caribbean	Haitian Guadeloupean Martiniquan
Hispano-Caribbean	Cuban Dominican (Dominican Republic) Panamanian Puerto Rican
Dutch Caribbean	Dutch West Indians Surinamese
Ethnic groups	Indo-Caribbean Americans

Demographics of the United States
Demographic history
Economic and social	Household income Income inequality
Religion	Christians Jews
Race and ethnicity	People of the United States / Americans 2020 Census Racism White Americans: European Americans English Americans French Americans German Americans Irish Americans Italian Americans Iranian Americans Israeli Americans White Hispanic and Latino Americans Black Americans: African Americans African immigrants to the United States Afro-Caribbean / West Indian Americans Black Hispanic and Latino Americans Asian Americans Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans Chinese Americans Filipino Americans Indian Americans Japanese Americans Vietnamese Americans Americans from other parts of the Americas: Canadian Guyanese American Hispanic and Latino Americans Cuban Americans Mexican Americans Puerto Ricans (Stateside) Native Americans and Alaska Natives Pacific Islander Americans Chamorro Americans Native Hawaiians Samoan Americans Other ethnic groups Romani people

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