Claim: America's Jewish population mostly consists of Ashkenazi Jews, with the largest population of Jewish people residing in New York City.
Evidence: Today the Jewish community in the United States consists primarily of Ashkenazi Jews, who descend from diaspora Jewish populations of Central and Eastern Europe and comprise about 90–95% of the American Jewish population. Metropolitan areas with largest Jewish populations (2015) New York City 1,750,000 2,028,200 1 1 Miami 535,000 337,000 Los Angeles 490,000 662,450 Philadelphia 254,000 285,950 Chicago 248,000 265,400 San Francisco 210,000 218,700 Boston 208,000 261,100 Baltimore–Washington 165,000 276,445