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Hungarian ancestry lines up quite a bit with the Hasidic Jewish population, although the Hasidic heartland is now part of Ukraine and Romania (I have ancestors from this region myself). Jews in Hungary proper were much more assimilated than the areas removed after 1920, though even the Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jews had a Hungarian identity.
Polish ancestry in the NYC suburbs does as well, to some extent, though of course there are also Polish American Catholic areas around Buffalo that top the list.
It's more diffcult to get a read on New York. The numbers are going to be higher than they are for other metros because the Jewish population is so large. But the Jewish population also overlaps with so many other ancestries (especially Italian) that it's hard to come up with a reliable estimate. You can guess a bit more with the other groups (i.e., Italians, Irish, etc.) because there's actually Census data to play around with, but we can't really do this for the Jewish population.
San Francisco - 16.53% of MSA (39.85% of NHW population)
Washington - 14.25% of MSA (30.42% of NHW population)
I assume the Jewish population of San Francisco is just for the MSA, not for the entire Bay Area as was done previously. Would the San Jose MSA even much of a big Jewish population? Actually does:
Wikipedia says 7.2% for Santa Clara County, higher than all Bay Area counties except for San Francisco itself. Given that Santa Clara County is only 34% white non-hispanic, rather high jewish %.
A lot of Israelis in the Silicon Valley. But the 300,000 figure cited for the Jewish population is for the Bay Area. I'm pretty sure the Silicon Valley number is too high though. Will try to have a look.
Hungarian ancestry lines up quite a bit with the Hasidic Jewish population, although the Hasidic heartland is now part of Ukraine and Romania (I have ancestors from this region myself). Jews in Hungary proper were much more assimilated than the areas removed after 1920, though even the Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jews had a Hungarian identity.
Polish ancestry in the NYC suburbs does as well, to some extent, though of course there are also Polish American Catholic areas around Buffalo that top the list.
Ukrainians are also underrated in Upstate NY, as quite a few live in the Syracuse/CNY region of the state. I'd say that the West Side/Western suburbs into Auburn has a relatively high concentration. Plenty of PA towns have some of the highest percentages of that ethnic group.
Utica has a pretty high Bosnian population as well.
NE Ohio has quite a few communities with an ethnic flair too.
First reported ancestries plus the Jewish population. I would imagine that a person reporting their first ancestry as "Italian" cannot also report his/her first ancestry as "Irish." So that in effect means we're dealing with two distinct individuals.
That's correct. That also takes care of a lot of the Jewish overlap problem, since the children of inter/conversionary marriages who identify as Jews would probably select their Jewish nation of origin first, which could be very well be Polish but is rarely Italian (and almost never Irish).
So far I've avoided the cities of the "German Triangle" of Cincinnati, St. Louis and Milwaukee since the "status" of German ancestry has proven to be controversial.
So far I've avoided the cities of the "German Triangle" of Cincinnati, St. Louis and Milwaukee since the "status" of German ancestry has proven to be controversial.
Tabulate them with and without German ancestry. If people get their feathers ruffled over it, it's not your fault.
Philadelphia MSA by County (Jewish estimates found here; other estimates found using the 2008-2012 ACS):
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Bucks County, PA
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Irish: 112,007 (17.9%)
Italian: 73,453 (11.7%)
Jewish: 41,400 (6.6%)
Polish: 32,912 (5.3%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 259,772 (41.5%)
Total population: 625,485
Burlington County, NJ
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Irish: 62,341 (13.9%)
Italian: 59,694 (13.3%)
Jewish: 12,900 (2.9%)
Polish: 22,115 (4.9%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 157,050 (35.0%)
Total population: 449,117
Camden County, NJ
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Irish: 70,262 (13.7%)
Italian: 71,055 (13.8%)
Jewish: 32,100 (6.2%)
Polish: 17,955 (3.5%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 191,372 (37.3%)
Total population: 513,660
Cecil County, MD
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Irish: 15,167 (15.0%)
Italian: 6,642 (6.6%)
Jewish: No estimate (probably under 100)
Polish: 2,974 (2.9%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 24,783 (24.5%)
Total population: 101,109
Chester County, PA
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Irish: 79,888 (16.0%)
Italian: 59,779 (12.0%)
Jewish: 20,900 (4.2%)
Polish: 15,321 (3.1%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 175,888 (35.2%)
Total population: 499,548
Delaware County, PA
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Irish: 115,079 (20.6%)
Italian: 75,701 (13.5%)
Jewish: 21,000 (3.8%)
Polish: 14,798 (2.6%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 226,578 (40.5%)
Total population: 558,874
Gloucester County, NJ
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Irish: 50,726 (17.6%)
Italian: 61,564 (21.4%)
Jewish: 4,200 (1.5%)
Polish: 12,104 (4.2%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 128,594 (44.6%)
Total population: 288,187
Montgomery County, PA
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Irish: 121,209 (15.1%)
Italian: 94,665 (11.8%)
Jewish: 64,500 (8.1%)
Polish: 36,384 (4.5%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 316,758 (39.6%)
Total population: 799,886
New Castle County, DE
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Irish: 69,052 (12.8%)
Italian: 48,641 (9.0%)
Jewish: 11,900 (2.2%)
Polish: 20,921 (3.9%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 150,514 (27.9%)
Total population: 539,665
Philadelphia County, PA
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Irish: 135,142 (8.9%)
Italian: 98,211 (6.4%)
Jewish: 66,800 (4.4%)
Polish: 37,275 (2.4%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 337,428 (22.1%)
Total population: 1,525,811
Salem County, NJ
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Irish: 9,088 (13.8%)
Italian: 8,198 (12.4%)
Jewish: 500 (0.8%)
Polish: 1,669 (2.5%)
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Total core white ethnic population: 19,455 (29.5%)
Total population: 66,007
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