List of Italian American Neighborhoods - New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey municipalities with over 25% of the population identifying themselves as of Italian ancestry (in those municipalities where at least 1,000 residents identified their ancestry):

• Hammonton 45.9 (second highest percentage for a town in the United States)
• Dover Beaches South 42.8
• Totowa 37.7
• South Hackensack 36.3
• Nutley 36.0
• Woodland Park (formerly West Paterson) 34.3
• Moonachie 34.1
• Lyndhurst 33.8
• Buena 33.5
• Lodi 33.3
• Ocean Gate 32.5
• Carlstadt 31.2
• Hasbrouck Heights 30.8
• West Long Branch 30.5
• Netcong 30.1
• Gibbstown 30.1
• Raritan 30.1
• Newfield 29.8
• Saddle Brook 29.8
• Cedar Grove 29.7
• Greenwich Township 29.3
• Glendora 28.7
• Belleville 28.7
• Little Falls 28.6
• Kenilworth 28.0
• Oceanport 27.7
• Lavallette 27.7
• North Arlington 27.4
• Longport 27.3
• Folsom 27.3
• Hawthorne 26.5
• Bloomfield 26.4
• Rochelle Park 26.1
• Washington Township 25.9
• Mystic Island 25.9
• Seaside Heights 25.7
• Blackwood 25.5
• Belford 25.3
• Riverdale 25.1
• East Rutherford 25.1

Other places in New Jersey

• Asbury Park
• Atlantic City
  • Ducktown
• Bayonne (20.1% Italian American)
• Camden
• Clifton
• Elizabeth
• Garfield
• Hackensack
• Hoboken - Four popular celebrities—Frank Sinatra, Buddy Valastro, Jimmy Roselli and Joe Pantoliano—grew up here.
• Jersey City, particularly The Village
• Kearny
• Margate
• Neptune City
• Newark
  • Ironbound, in the Italian Down Neck section. However, it has become less populated by Italian Americans since the 1970s.
  • Seventh Avenue
• Orange
• Paterson
  • Little Italy
• Rockaway
• Rutherford
• Secaucus
• Trenton
  • South Trenton
• Ventnor City (22.8% Italian American)
• Verona
• Vineland (22.8% Italian American)
• West New York