Americans of Irish birth or descent
Ethnic group
Irish Americans Gael-Mheiriceánaigh (Irish ) Irish Americans, % of population by state
Including Scotch-Irish Americans :
36,115,472 (10.9%) alone or in combination
10,899,442 (3.3%) Irish alone
Excluding Scotch-Irish Americans:
33,618,500 (10.1%) alone or in combination
9,919,263 (3.0%) Irish alone
2021 estimates, self-reported [ 1] Significant populations in most urban areas of the United States,[ 2] but particularly
New England (Boston • Rhode Island • New Hampshire • Middlesex • Worcester ) • New York (New York City • Long Island • Upstate New York ) • Pennsylvania (Philadelphia • Pittsburgh [ 3] • 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 • Denver English (American English dialects ); a scant speak Irish Catholicism and Protestantism [ 4] 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
Number of Irish Americans
Year
Number
1980[ 5]
1990[ 6]
2000[ 7]
2010[ 8]
2020[ 9]
Irish Americans (Irish : Gael-Mheiriceánaigh ) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens. Most Irish Americans of the 21st century are descendants of immigrants who moved to the United States in the mid-19th century because of the Great Famine in Ireland.[ 10]
^ "IPUMS USA" . University of Minnesota . Retrieved October 12, 2022 .
^ "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 .