Hispanics and Latinos in New Jersey

[2] New Jersey is also home to a large Brazilian American and Portuguese-speaking population.

[4] Latinos and Hispanics form one-third of the population in the largest city, Newark settling in the Forest Hill, Broadway and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods which comprise mostly of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans.

Many Latino and Hispanic people have been elected to public office in New Jersey, at both the state and local levels.

[9][10] The percentage of Latinos in Newark, the most populous city in New Jersey, grew considerably between 1980 and 2010, from 18.6% to 33.8%; that of blacks has slightly decreased from 58.2% to 52.4%.

[17] While municipal elections have seen black-Latino coalitions, voting tends to remain racially polarized.