page_title: Salvadoran Americans
section_title: Areas of concentration
hierarchical_section_title: Salvadoran Americans / Demographics / Areas of concentration
caption_attribution_description: English: Mapa de la poblacion Salvadoreña en los Estados Unidos
context_page_description: Salvadoran Americans are Americans of full or partial Salvadoran descent. As of 2010, there are 2,195,477 Salvadoran Americans in the United States, the fourth-largest Hispanic community by nation of ancestry. According to the Census Bureau, in 2016 Salvadorans made up 3.8% of the total Hispanic population in the US.
  Salvadorans are the largest group of Central Americans of the Central American Isthmus community in the U.S. Among the Hispanic groups, Salvadorans are also the largest group of Spanish speakers in the United States who use voseo.
  The largest Salvadoran population is in Central parts of Los Angeles and throughout California along with Guatemalan Americans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans. See: Salvadoran diaspora in Los Angeles
context_section_description: Many Salvadoran Americans reside in the Greater Los Angeles area, including Orange County, California and the Inland Empire; San Diego; and the Washington Metropolitan Area: Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia. The Washington DC area is currently the only metropolitan area in the country where Salvadorans are the majority among Hispanics, and they are most concentrated in the suburbs in Northern Virginia and Maryland. In Washington D.C. proper, 32 percent of the Hispanic population are Salvadorans, the largest in the city. Salvadorans settled in the neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant, Adams Morgan, and Columbia Heights. In the Richmond Metro Region, Salvadoran Americans form the largest single group of Hispanics in the Metro, but not the majority. Most of these Salvadorans came from the eastern departments of San Miguel and La Union, especially from the Salvadoran towns Chirilagua and Intipuca. Formerly known as Arlandria, a neighborhood between Alexandria and Arlington in Virginia is now referred to as Chirilagua, due to the many Salvadorans living there from that particular town. Salvadorans are the largest immigrant population in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
  There is also a large number of Salvadorans in Texas, especially in Houston, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas; increasingly New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005; and in other California regions outside of Los Angeles such as the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, there is a significant number of Salvadoran Americans in the New York City area such as Northern New Jersey; Flushing, Queens; Corona, Queens; Far Rockaway, Queens; Parkchester, Bronx; South Bronx; Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Long Island. In Massachusetts, Salvadorans tend to reside in Greater Boston, mostly in cities such as Chelsea, Somerville, Everett, Revere, or Boston. Salvadorans have also established a significant community in the island of Nantucket (where Salvadorans account for 7.3% of the total population there as of 2010),of which a sizable majority come from the municipality of Agua Caliente, El Salvador.
  Smaller, but sizable populations of Salvadorans can be found in Miami-Dade or South Florida as well in Central Florida; Georgia; and North Carolina.
  Recent census data shows that for the first time, there are more Salvadorans living on Long Island than Puerto Ricans, with Salvadorans now numbering nearly 100,000, representing nearly a quarter of all Hispanics in the region, making them largest Latino group in Long Island. They tend to concentrate in the hamlets of Brentwood, Central Islip, North Bay Shore, Uniondale, and the village of Hempstead.
caption: Salvadoran population in the United States
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