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Hispanics and Latinos in New Jersey

The U.S. state of New Jersey is home to significant and growing numbers of people of Hispanic and Latino descent, who in 2018 represented a Census-estimated 20.4% of the state's total population (nearly 1.8 million).[1][2] New Jersey's Latino population comprises substantial concentrations of Dominican Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, Cuban Americans, Mexican Americans, Central Americans, Peruvian Americans, Colombian Americans, and Ecuadorian Americans.[2] New Jersey is also home to a large Brazilian American and Portuguese-speaking population.[3]

The state has multiple municipalities with Hispanic-majority populations.[4] Latinos and Hispanics form one-third of the population in the largest city, Newark settling in the Forest Hill, Broadway and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods which comprise mostly of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. The northern part of Hudson County has been nicknamed Havana on the Hudson for the large number of Cuban exiles and émigrés living there. Little Lima, in Paterson, is the largest Peruvian enclave outside of South America.


Many Latino and Hispanic people have been elected to public office in New Jersey, at both the state and local levels.

(59.5%)

Elizabeth

(57.6%), which includes Little Lima and La Ventiuno

Paterson

Center for Hispanic Policy, Research and Development[edit]

The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Center for Hispanic Policy, Research and Development is designed to empower the Hispanic community of New Jersey by administering grant dollars and providing other assistance to Hispanic community-based organizations, creating training and employment opportunities for Hispanic college interns, conducting and supporting research on New Jersey's Hispanic community, and ensuring Hispanic access to services and programs.[8]

federal district judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

Esther Salas

Associate Justice New Jersey Supreme Court

Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina

Associate Justice New Jersey Supreme Court

Roberto A. Rivera-Soto

executive producer of Sesame Street (Puerto Rican-American)[25]

Carol-Lynn Parente

visual artist (Nicaraguan American)[26]

Franck de Las Mercedes

US national soccer team player (Uruguayan American)[27]

Tab Ramos

Hispanic Council On Social Policy Center For Community Development Corp.

Puerto Ricans in New York City

Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia

Prieto, Yolanda (2009). The Cubans of Union City: Immigrants and Exiles in a New Jersey Community. Temple University Press.  978-1-59213-300-0.

ISBN

Medina, Carlos; Naidus, Doug (February 28, 2019). nj.

"A partnership to help Latino-owned businesses blossoms in N.J."