Cuban Americans
ethnic group; Americans of Cuban birth or descent
Cuban Americans (Spanish: cubanoestadounidenses or cubanoamericanos) are Americans who trace their ancestry to Cuba. The word may refer to someone born in the U.S. of Cuban descent or to someone who has emigrated to the U.S. from Cuba. Cuban Americans are the third largest Hispanic American group in the United States.
Many metropolitan areas throughout the United States have significant Cuban American populations. Florida (1,621,352 in 2023) has the highest concentration of Cuban Americans in the United States. Over 1.2 million Cuban Americans reside in Miami-Dade County (home to 52 percent of all Cuban immigrants in the U.S.), where they are the largest single ethnic group and constitute a majority of the population in many municipalities.
Greater Miami has by far the highest concentration of Cuban Americans of any metropolitan area, with an estimate of 2 million individuals identifying as such. Along with Greater Miami and its surroundings, Tampa (200,621) and Jacksonville (up to 7,000) compose another substantial portion of the Cuban American population in the state of Florida.
As of 2024, the second state with the highest Cuban American population is Texas, counting a number up to 140,000 individuals identifying as such.
About 60,000 and more reside in the Greater Houston area, whereas some other 20,000 individuals can be found in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, San Antonio and Austin areas altogether.
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