Polonia in Numbers

POLES MAKE UP, ON ESTIMATE, 3.1% OF THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.

Metropolitan Areas in 2000

Chicago	831,774
Detroit	479,659
Philadelphia	288,440
New York	268,228
Buffalo - Niagara Falls, NY	209,303
Pittsburgh, PA	209,032
Milwaukee - Waukesha, Wl	190,076
Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH	186,571
Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN-WI	148,876
Los Angeles, CA	122,680
Boston, MA	120,245
Newark, NJ	120,193
Bergen-Passaic, NJ	95,403
St. Louis, MO	67,084
Houston, TX	59,254
Omaha, NE	32,132
Jersey City, NJ	27,673

Top 13 States

78% of all Poles live in the 13 states with the highest Polish populations

State	2000 Census	2005 ACS	Rate of Change
New York	986,106	997,987	+1%
lllinois	932,996	995,445	+7%
Michigan	854,844	919,007	+8%
Pennsylvania	824,146	885,218	+7%
New Jersey	576,473	572,918	-1%
Wisconsin	497,726	533,787	+7%
California	491,325	530,733	+8%
Florida	429,691	523,162	+22%
Ohio	433,016	474,569	+10%
Massachusetts	323,210	325,663	+1%
Connecticut	284,272	303,047	+7%
Minnesota	240,405	265,706	+11%
Texas	228,309	261,511	+15%

As shown by the above table, only one of the 13 states (New Jersey) noticed a decline in the Polish population, and that decrease was quite insignificant - oniy one percent. All the other states noticed an increase in the population of the Poles, with ten states getting 7% and above.

Data supplied by the Piast Institute - Census Information Center; ACS is the American Community Survey.

From: GOOD NEWS 2006-2007, Institute of Polish Culture, Miami FL