America's Jewish population mostly consists of Ashkenazi Jews, with the largest population of Jewish people residing in New York City.
Today the Jewish community in the United States consists primarily of Ashkenazi Jews, who descend from diaspora Jewish populations of Central and Eastern Europe and comprise about 9095% of the American Jewish population. Metropolitan areas with largest Jewish populations (2015) New York City 1,750,000 2,028,200 1 1 Miami 535,000 337,000 Los Angeles 490,000 662,450 Philadelphia 254,000 285,950 Chicago 248,000 265,400 San Francisco 210,000 218,700 Boston 208,000 261,100 BaltimoreWashington 165,000 276,445 
