page_title: Polish Americans
section_title: By state totals
hierarchical_section_title: Polish Americans / Communities / By state totals
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a map showing states by the percentage of Americans they have claiming Polish Ancestry in 2018 according to the ACS's 5-year Estimates.
context_page_description: Polish Americans are Americans who have total or partial Polish ancestry. There are an estimated 9.15 million self-identified Polish Americans, representing about 2.83% of the U.S. population. Polish Americans are the second largest Central European immigrant group after the Germans, and the eighth largest immigrant group overall in the United States.
  The first Polish settlers arrived at Walter Raleigh's failed Roanoke Colony in 1585. Two Polish volunteers, Casimir Pulaski and Tadeusz Kościuszko, led armies in the Revolutionary War and are remembered as American heroes. Overall, around 2.2 million Poles and Polish subjects immigrated into the United States, between 1820 and 1914, chiefly after national insurgencies and famine. They included former Polish citizens of Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or other minority descent. Exact immigration figures are unknown. Many immigrants were classified as "Russian", "German" or "Austrian" by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as the Polish state did not exist from 1795 to 1918 when the former territories of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were under Prussian, Austrian-Hungarian and Russian control. Complicating the U.S.
context_section_description: Estimated population by state according to the 2018 American Community Survey.
   New York – 886,669
   Illinois – 875,652
   Michigan – 821,091
   Pennsylvania – 803,177
   Wisconsin – 496,506
   New Jersey – 490,520
   Florida – 484,698
   California – 472,869
   Ohio – 428,719
   Massachusetts – 304,344
   Texas – 288,610
   Connecticut – 259,940
   Minnesota – 248,014
   Indiana – 205,590
   Maryland – 183,221
   Arizona – 158,111
   Virginia – 156,009
   North Carolina – 145,605
   Washington – 136,645
   Colorado – 133,147
   Georgia – 109,546
   Missouri – 101,104
   Tennessee – 72,428
   South Carolina – 69,083
   Oregon – 68,657
   Nebraska – 64,976
   Nevada – 57,474
   New Hampshire – 56,642
   Kentucky – 40,559
   Iowa – 40,445
   Kansas – 39,800
   Rhode Island – 39,287
   Delaware – 38,211
   Oklahoma – 32,774
   West Virginia – 32,045
   Maine – 30,354
   Alabama – 28,449
   Utah – 25,302
   Arkansas – 23,188
   Louisiana – 22,328
   Vermont – 22,304
   New Mexico – 21,308
   Idaho – 20,016
   Montana – 19,427
   North Dakota – 17,814
   Alaska – 15,582
   District of Columbia – 14,549
   South Dakota – 14,205
   Mississippi – 12,817
   Hawaii – 12,271
   Wyoming – 10,738
caption: Distribution of Americans claiming Polish Ancestry by county in 2018
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