page_title: History of Italians in Baltimore
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: History of Italians in Baltimore / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Leo's Catholic Church in the Little Italy neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 83002939
context_page_description: The history of Italians in Baltimore dates back to the mid-19th century. The city's Italian-American community is centered in the neighborhood of Little Italy.
context_section_description: In 1920, 7,930 foreign-born white people in Baltimore spoke the Italian language.
  In 1940, 8,063 immigrants from Italy lived in Baltimore. These immigrants comprised 13.2% of the city's foreign-born white population. In total, 18,179 people of Italian birth or descent lived in the city, comprising 13% of the foreign-stock white population.
  In the 1960 United States Census, Italian-Americans comprised 71% of the foreign-stock white population in Little Italy, Baltimore's tract 3–2.
  The Italian community in the Baltimore metropolitan area numbered 157,498 as of 2000, making up 6.2% of the area's population. In the same year Baltimore city's Italian population was 18,492, 2.8% of the city's population.
  In 2013, an estimated 16,581 Italian-Americans resided in Baltimore city, 2.7% of the population.
  In September 2014, immigrants from Italy were the thirty-sixth largest foreign-born population in Baltimore.
caption: St. Leo's Catholic Church, Little Italy, September 2014.
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