Jewish population by city

This is a list of Jewish populations in different cities and towns around the world. It includes statistics for populations of metropolitan areas, as well as statistics about the number of Jews as a percentage of the total city or town population.

Jewish population by metropolitan area

The Tel Aviv metropolitan area concentrates the largest Jewish population in the world

The global Jewish population is heavily concentrated in major urban centers. As of 2021, more than half (51.2%) of world Jewry resided in just ten metropolitan areas. Nearly all these key centers of Jewish settlement typically include national or regional capitals with high standards of living, advanced infrastructure supporting higher education and technology sectors, and extensive transnational connections. The table below shows only metropolitan areas with Jewish population above 100,000 as of 2021:^[1]

Metropolitan area	Country	Number	% of Jews out of total population
Tel Aviv	Israel	3,891,000	94.8
New York City	United States	2,109,300	10.8
Jerusalem	Israel	992,800	72.3
Haifa	Israel	710,600	73.1
Los Angeles	United States	622,480	4.7
Miami	United States	535,500	8.7
Philadelphia	United States	419,850	6.8
Chicago	United States	350,000	3.1
Paris	France	337,600	2.8
San Francisco	United States	319,600	5.1
Washington, D.C.	United States	297,290	4.7
Boston	United States	257,460	5.2
Be'er Sheva	Israel	247,600	60.4
Buenos Aires	Argentina	230,300	1.4
Toronto	Canada	219,900	4.5
London	United Kingdom	145,400	2.4
San Diego	United States	134,000	3.0
Atlanta	United States	119,800	2.0
Baltimore	United States	117,800	4.1

Jewish population by city proper

Visualization of Urban Areas by Jewish Population

Haredi Jewish residents in Brooklyn,^[2] and home to the US largest Jewish community, which with over 561,000 adherents living in the borough, is greater than Tel Aviv.^[3]

New York City is home to the largest Jewish community in any city proper in the world. In 2011, according to the UJA-Federation of New York, the five boroughs of New York City proper was home to 1,086,000 Jews, representing 13% of the city's population.^[4] In 2023, 960,000 Jews live in the city, nearly half of them live in Brooklyn.^[5][3][2]

Census enumerations in many countries do not record religious or ethnic background, leading to a lack of certainty regarding the exact numbers of Jewish adherents. Therefore, the following list of cities ranked by Jewish population is not complete. In particular, it excludes many Jewish-majority cities in Israel. Many of the U.S. cities have their data sourced from the Jewish Data Bank, which records population statistics for service areas that encompass many counties in a metropolitan area.^[6]

City	Country	Number
New York City[5]	United States	960,000
Jerusalem[7]	Israel	570,100
Los Angeles[6]	United States	519,200
Tel Aviv[8]	Israel	401,500
Chicago[6]	United States	291,800
Paris[9]	France	277,000
Boston[6]	United States	248,000
Buenos Aires[10]	Argentina	244,000
Rishon LeZiyyon[8]	Israel	229,300
San Francisco Bay Area[6]	United States	227,800
Petah Tikva[8]	Israel	220,900
Bnei Brak[8]	Israel	218,300
Haifa[8]	Israel	217,600
Philadelphia[6]	United States	214,600
Ashdod[8]	Israel	200,400
Netanya[8]	Israel	196,300
Toronto[11]	Canada	188,710
Be'er Sheva[8]	Israel	181,000
Holon[8]	Israel	180,900
Ramat Gan[12]	Israel	175,000
Moscow[13]	Russia	165,000
Beit Shemesh[8]	Israel	154,600
London[14]	United Kingdom	145,480
Atlanta[6]	United States	119,800
Miami[6]	United States	119,000
Kyiv[15]	Ukraine	111,000
San Diego[6]	United States	100,000
Baltimore[16]	United States	95,400
Montreal[11]	Canada	90,780
Cleveland[17][18][19][20]	United States	86,600
Denver[21]	United States	83,900
Phoenix[22]	United States	82,900
Las Vegas[23]	United States	80,000
Budapest[24]	Hungary	80,000
São Paulo[25]	Brazil	75,000
Detroit[26]	United States	71,750
Marseille[27]	France	70,000
Minneapolis-St Paul[28]	United States	64,800
Seattle[29]	United States	63,400
Dnipro[15]	Ukraine	60,000
Dallas[30]	United States	57,800
Melbourne[31]	Australia	55,643
St. Louis[32]	United States	54,500
Tampa[33]	United States	51,100
Sydney[34]	Australia	50,000
Johannesburg[35]	South Africa	30,000
Pittsburgh[36]	United States	49,200
Houston[37]	United States	48,400
Portland[38]	United States	47,500
Odesa[15]	Ukraine	45,000
Kharkiv[15]	Ukraine	45,000
Saint Petersburg[13]	Russia	40,000
Rio de Janeiro[39]	Brazil	40,000
Mexico City[40]	Mexico	39,777
Hartford[41]	United States	34,500
New Haven[42]	United States	29,700
Washington, D.C.[6]	United States	28,000
Cincinnati[43]	United States	27,000
Vancouver[44]	Canada	26,255
Milwaukee[45]	United States	25,800
Manchester[46]	United Kingdom	25,000
Berlin[47]	Germany	25,000
Lyon[48]	France	25,000
Istanbul[49]	Turkey	24,000
Toulouse[50][48]	France	23,000
Tucson[51][52]	United States	22,900
Rochester[53]	United States	22,500
Columbus[54]	United States	22,500
Montevideo[55]	Uruguay	20,000
Amsterdam[56]	Netherlands	20,000
Antwerp[57]	Belgium	20,000
Brussels[58]	Belgium	20,000
Nice[48]	France	20,000
Kansas City[59]	United States	19,000
Orlando[60]	United States	19,000
Austin[61]	United States	16,300
Strasbourg[62][48]	France	16,000
Cape Town[35][63]	South Africa	12,500
Porto Alegre[64]	Brazil	15,000
Jacksonville[65]	United States	15,000
Panama City[66]	Panama	15,000
Providence[67]	United States	14,200
Louisville[68]	United States	14,200
Ottawa[11]	Canada	14,010
Winnipeg[11]	Canada	13,690
Rome[69]	Italy	13,000
Buffalo[70]	United States	13,000
San Antonio[71]	United States	12,740
Richmond[72]	United States	12,500
Albany[73]	United States	12,500
Charlotte[6]	United States	12,000
New Orleans[74]	United States	12,000
Nashville[75]	United States	11,000
Singapore[76]	Singapore	10,500
Frankfurt[77]	Germany	10,500
Indianapolis[78]	United States	10,000
Munich[79]	Germany	9,200
Córdoba[46]	Argentina	9,000
Stockholm[80]	Sweden	9,000
Calgary[11]	Canada	8,335
Milan[69]	Italy	8,000
Rosario[46]	Argentina	8,000
Leeds[81]	United Kingdom	8,000
Grenoble[48]	France	8,000
Memphis[82]	United States	7,800
Syracuse[83]	United States	7,000
Vienna[84]	Austria	7,000
Chapel Hill[6]	United States	6,000
Raleigh[6]	United States	6,000
Zurich[85]	Switzerland	6,000
Edmonton[11]	Canada	5,550
Birmingham[86]	United States	5,300
Perth[87]	Australia	5,187
Hamilton[88]	Canada	5,110
Hong Kong[89]	China	5,000
El Paso[90]	United States	5,000
Madison[91]	United States	5,000
Santa Fe[46]	Argentina	5,000
Bogotá[92]	Colombia	5,500
Minsk[93]	Belarus	4,800
Metz[48]	France	4,000
Nancy[48]	France	4,000
Dayton[94]	United States	4,000
Toledo[94]	United States	3,900
Glasgow[95]	United Kingdom	3,500
Youngstown[96]	United States	3,200
Prague[97]	Czech Republic	3,000
Greensboro[98]	United States	3,000
Liverpool[99]	United Kingdom	3,000
Victoria[88]	Canada	2,740
Durban[35]	South Africa	2,700
London[88]	Canada	2,675
Chișinău[100]	Moldova	2,649
Bucharest[101]	Romania	2,481
Binghamton[83]	United States	2,400
Brisbane[102]	Australia	2,195
Halifax[88]	Canada	2,120
Kitchener-Waterloo[88]	Canada	2,015
Punta del Este[103][104]	Uruguay	2,000
Curitiba[105]	Brazil	1,774
Ithaca[83]	United States	2,000
Belo Horizonte[105]	Brazil	1,714
Oshawa[106]	Canada	1,670
Gothenburg[107]	Sweden	1,600
Windsor[88]	Canada	1,515
İzmir[108]	Turkey	1,500
Pretoria[35]	South Africa	1,500
Barrie[106]	Canada	1,445
Dublin[109]	Ireland	1,439
St. Catharines-Niagara[106]	Canada	1,375
Recife[110]	Brazil	1,300
Helsinki[111]	Finland	1,200
Montgomery[112]	United States	1,200
Kingston[106]	Canada	1,185
Brasília[113]	Brazil	1,103
Kingston[88]	Canada	1,100
Florence[69]	Italy	1,000
Basel[114]	Switzerland	1,000
Casablanca[115]	Morocco	1,000
Asunción[116]	Paraguay	1,000
Malmö[117]	Sweden	1,000
Oslo[118]	Norway	950
Guelph[106]	Canada	925
Regina[106]	Canada	900
Kelowna[106]	Canada	900
Guadalajara[119]	Mexico	900
Bratislava[120]	Slovakia	800
Monterrey[121]	Mexico	500

Jewish population by towns and villages as a percentage of total population

List does not include cities in Israel.

City	Country	Percent	Number
Qırmızı Qəsəbə[122]	Azerbaijan	100	3,300
Kiryas Joel[123]	United States	99	22,000
Deal[124][125]	United States	91	600
Beachwood[126]	United States	90.4	10,700
Hampstead[127]	Canada	74.2	5,170
Great Neck[128]	United States	71	28,700
Côte-Saint-Luc[129]	Canada	69.1	20,146
Lakewood[130]	United States	59	59,607
Teaneck[131]	United States	50	18,000
Dover Heights[132]	Australia	48.5	1,840
Golders Green[133]	United Kingdom	47.9	7,358
Stamford Hill[134]	United Kingdom	47	4,138
Livingston[citation needed]	United States	46	12,600
Caulfield North[135]	Australia	41.4	6,319
Hendon[136]	United Kingdom	35.8	7,155
Caulfield South[137]	Australia	33.9	4,008
Rose Bay[138]	Australia	27.3	2,744
Sarcelles[139]	France	25	15,000
Mercer Island[140]	United States	25	5,000
St Kilda East[141]	Australia	24.8	3,246
Créteil[142]	France	24.4	22,000
Vaucluse[143]	Australia	23.2	2,163
Westmount[144]	Canada	23.2	4,495
Bellevue Hill[145]	Australia	21.4	2,300
Dollard-des-Ormeaux[146]	Canada	21.1	10,115
Vaughan[147]	Canada	18.2	33,090
Elsternwick[148]	Australia	17.8	1,846
Montreal West[149]	Canada	13.8	710
Newton, Massachusetts[150]	United States	21	18,000
New York[151]	United States	18	1,540,000
Budapest[151]	Hungary	4.55	80,000
Los Angeles[151]	United States	12.5	519,000
Mount Royal[152]	Canada	12.0	2,205
Marseille[153]	France	9	70,000
Buenos Aires[10]	Argentina	8.22	244,000
Newton Mearns[154]	United Kingdom	5.98	1,431
Philadelphia[155][failed verification]	United States	4.89	276,000
Toronto[156]	Canada	4.21	103,500
San Jose, California[157]	United States	4	40,000

See also

• Jewish population by country