In the late 19th century, many Portuguese, mainly from the islands of Azores and Madeira, migrated to the United States and established communities in cities such as Fall River, Massachusetts, New Bedford, Massachusetts; and San Jose, California. Many of them also moved to Hawaii. There are an estimated 1,500,000 Portuguese Americans based on the Government Census Community Survey.
List of Portuguese American neighborhoods
Alabama Mobile
Arizona Sedona Tucson
California
Artesia, "International District", known for ethnic diversity Bakersfield (Kern County) Camarillo Castro Valley Ceres Cherryland Chino Chowchilla Corona Culver City - Little Brazil, also has Portuguese Dana Point Delano Denair El Granada Empire Excalon Fairfield Ferndale Fort Bragg Fremont Fresno Gilroy Gustine Half Moon Bay Hanford Healdsburg Hilmar Hollister Keyes Kings County Lathrop Lemoore Long Beach Los Angeles - Little Portugal in San Pedro. Also, Pico Boulevard (Mid-City) - concentrations extend to Central Los Angeles Los Banos Manteca Modesto (and surrounding towns in the Central Valley) Monterey Newark Newman Newport Beach Norco Oakdale Oakland - largest Portuguese city in California Oakley Ontario Orange County (esp. around Tustin) Orland Pasadena Petaluma Pismo Beach Point Loma Port Hueneme Porterville (and surrounding towns in the Central Valley) Portuguese Bend on the Palos Verdes Peninsula Redondo Beach Rio Vista Ripon Riverside - has a Portugal Day event Sacramento - could be largest Portuguese community in US Salida Salinas near Salinas Valley San Diego including the Little Italy neighborhood. The surrounding San Diego area has many Portuguese. San Francisco - Luso-American cultural center San Jose - "Little Portugal" neighborhood San Juan Bautista San Leandro, city near Oakland with a large Portuguese population. San Lorenzo San Martin San Mateo County San Pablo San Rafael, Marin County Santa Barbara Santa Clara in the Lafayette Street area Santa Clara County Santa Cruz in the Seabright neighborhood Santa Cruz County Santa Maria Santa Monica Shasta Lake Sonora Stockton Sunol Torrance Tracy Tulare Turlock Vallejo Ventura Visalia - part of the Portuguese settlement of the San Joaquin Valley Watsonville West Los Angeles - Little Portugal has Portuguese, more Brazilians and Latin Americans Yuba City
Connecticut
Ansonia Bozrah Bridgeport Chester Clinton Colchester Danbury ("Little Portugal" neighborhood) Darien Ellington Hartford Naugatuck New Canaan Newington Rocky Hill Stonington Wallingford Waterbury, home to the Portuguese consulate in Connecticut Weston Windsor Locks
Delaware
Bethany Beach Dover Lewes New Castle Newark Rehoboth Beach Seaford Smyrna Wilmington
District of Columbia Washington, D.C.
Florida
Apalachicola Avon Park Belle Glade Blountstown Boca Raton Bonifay Bradenton Brooksville Cape Coral Casselberry Cedar Key Chattahoochee Chiefland Clermont Clewiston Cocoa Crescent City Crystal River Dade City Davie DeBary Deltona Doral Everglades City Fellsmere Fernandina Beach Fort Myers Fort Walton Beach Gulf Breeze Haines City Hallandale Beach High Springs Highland Beach Holmes Beach Homestead Jacksonville Beach Lady Lake Lake City Lake Wales Lakeland Lantana Lauderdale Lakes Lighthouse Point Longboat Key Marco Island Margate Miami - includes Brazilians and Cape Verdeans Milton Miramar Monticello Moore Have New Smyrna Beach Niceville North Lauderdale Oakland Park Okeechobee Orlando Palatka Palm Bay Palm Beach Palm Beach Gardens Palm Coast Palmetto Bay Panama City Beach Parkland Pensacola Pinecrest Plant City Plantation Pompano Beach Port Orange Port St. Lucie Punta Gorda Safety Harbor San Antonio Sanford Sarasota Southwest Ranches St. Augustine St. Petersburg Stuart Sunny Isles Beach Sunrise Tallahassee Tamarac Temple Terrace Tequesta Titusville Venice West Park Weston Wilton Manors Winter Garden Winter Haven Zephyrhills
Georgia
Acworth Americus Atlanta Augusta Bainbridge Blairsville Canton Clarkesville Clayton Cleveland Columbus Cumming Cuthbert Dawsonville Decatur Donalsonville Dublin Ellijay Fayetteville Fitzgerald Flowery Branch Folkston Hartwell Jasper Johns Creek Jonesboro Kennesaw LaGrange Lithonia Loganville Lookout Mountain Macon Milledgeville Monroe Newnan Norcross Peachtree City Peachtree Corners Ray City Savannah Smyrna Stone Mountain Thomaston Thomson Tifton Toccoa Tybee Island Valdosta Winder
Hawaii
Ewa Beach Haleiwa Hawaii (Big Island) Hilo Honokaa Honolulu Kahului Kailua Kalaheo Kaneohe Kapaa Kapaau Kauai Kekaha Koloa Lihue Makawao Maui Molokai Naalehu Paia Waialua Waianae Wailuku Waimanalo Waimea
Idaho Buhl Wendell
Illinois Chicago - Little Portugal/Brazil Galena Jacksonville Joliet Mendota Springfield
Indiana East Chicago
Louisiana New Orleans Opelousas
Maine
Augusta Bangor Bar Harbor Boothbay Harbor Brewer Bucksport Calais Cape Elizabeth Caribou Castine Cherryfield Danforth Dover-Foxcroft Fort Fairfield Freeport Frenchville Gorham Houlton Islesboro Jay Kittery Lewiston Lyman Machias Madawaska Mechanic Falls Ogunquit Presque Isle Rumford Saco Sanford Skowhegan South Berwick Stonington Van Buren Waterville Windham Yarmouth
Maryland
Aberdeen Annapolis Bowie Cambridge Centreville Cheverly Clear Spring College Park Easton Elkton Emmitsburg Frostburg Gaithersburg Greenbelt Hagerstown Hancock Hyattsville La Plata Laurel Middletown Ocean City Poolesville Salisbury Thurmont Upper Marlboro Walkersville Westminster
Massachusetts
Amherst Athol Attleboro Blackstone Bridgewater Brockton Cambridge Chicopee Fall River Falmouth Fitchburg Framingham Gloucester Hanover Haverhill Hudson Lawrence Lowell, Back Central neighborhood Ludlow Milford Nantucket New Bedford Norwood Oak Bluffs Paxton Peabody Pittsfield Plainville Provincetown, Massachusetts Rehoboth Somerville Southbridge Stoughton Taunton, 33.7% Portuguese descentTaunton Daily Newspaper Wellfleet West Stockbridge Williamstown Winchendon Woburn
Michigan Jackson Traverse City
Minnesota St. Cloud
Montana Bozeman
Nebraska Lincoln
Nevada Las Vegas Reno - along with Galicians, Spanish and Basques
New Hampshire
Bedford Berlin Bristol Claremont Colebrook Concord Derry Enfield Exeter Farmington Franconia Gorham Jaffrey Keene Lancaster Lebanon Lincoln Litchfield Littleton Meredith Merrimack New London Newmarket Newport Pittsfield Plymouth Seabrook Somersworth
New Jersey
East Newark Elizabeth Englewood Cliffs Harrison Hillside Kearny Livingston Long Branch New Brunswick New Providence Newark, high percentage of Portuguese people within the Ironbound section Little Portugal, aka Little Brazil - home to many Portuguese and Brazilians, as well Spaniards and Latinos North Arlington Ocean County Old Bridge Paterson - Portuguese, Cape Verdean and Brazilian Perth Amboy Short Hills South Amboy South River Union Township Vernon Township
New York
Buffalo Dobbs Ferry Ithaca Long Island Manhattan Mineolahttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/mineola-ny/ Community - Near Mineola, NY Mount Vernon Nassau County New Rochelle New York City (Little Brazil, Manhattan, inhabited by many Portuguese-speaking countries' communities, mainly Portuguese and Brazilian) Ossining Port Jervis Rochester Saratoga Springs Suffolk County Tarrytown Yonkers
North Carolina
Albemarle Asheboro Brevard Burnsville Chapel Hill Edenton Fayetteville Forest City Goldsboro Greenville Hamlet Hayesville Hendersonville Hickory High Point Hillsborough Huntersville Jacksonville Jefferson Kannapolis Kings Mountain Kinston Laurinburg Lexington Louisburg Mint Hill Mocksville Morehead City Morganton Nags Head New Bern Newton Oriental Pinehurst Red Springs Reidsville Roanoke Rapids Robbinsville Rocky Mount Shallotte Shelby Southern Pines Statesville Tarboro Tryon Wake Forest Waynesville Wendell Williamstown Wilson Winston-Salem Wrightsville Beach
Ohio Columbus
Oregon Astoria
Pennsylvania
Allentown, including Brazilians and other Latin Americans Bethlehem has a Portuguese community of around 5,000. Also has Spaniards and Hispanics. Chester Grove City Philadelphia (Little Portugal, Northeast Philadelphia, a large presence of Portuguese as well as Brazilians) Tinicum Township
Rhode Island
Bristol in Portuguese Town. 25% in town, the state itself is 12% Portuguese. Central Falls Cranston Cumberland, particularly the Valley Falls section. East Providence Little Compton New Shoreham Newport Pawtucket, largest Portuguese city in New England Smithfield Tiverton Warren West Warwick
South Carolina
Abbeville Aiken Batesburg-Leesville Beaufort Bluffton Blythewood Camden Clover Easley Edgefield Florence Fort Mill Greenwood Hanahan Hardeeville Hartsville Hilton Head Island Kingstree Lancaster Laurens Loris Marion Moncks Corner Newberry North Augusta North Myrtle Beach Pawleys Island Pickens Rock Hill Santee Sullivan's Island Summerton Summerville Sumter York
Texas Galveston Houston
Vermont
Bennington Bradford Brattleboro Bridport Burlington Colchester Danville Fairfax Fairfield Hardwick Irasburg Milton Newport Northfield Norwich Pittsford Randolph Richford Rutland (city) Rutland (town) Springfield Stamford Stowe Swanton Wallingford Williston Wilmington Winooski Woodstock
Virginia
Abingdon Appomattox Ashland Bristol Charlottesville Clifton Forge Covington Emporia Fairfax Falls Church Harrisonburg Herndon Jonesville Leesburg Lexington Manassas Newport News Purcellville Richmond Roanoke Rocky Mount Staunton Vienna Warrenton Waynesboro Williamsburg
Washington Seattle Walla Walla
West Virginia
Berkeley Springs Bluefield Buckhannon Chester Clarksburg Dunbar Elkins Fairmont Gassaway Grafton Grantsville Hinton Huntington Hurricane Kingwood Marlinton Martinsburg Morgantown Moundsville New Martinsville Parkersburg Rainelle Ravenswood Romney Ronceverte Shepherdstown Shinnston Sistersville Summersville Vienna Webster Springs Weirton Weston Wheeling Williamson
Wisconsin Door County Kenosha
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