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====Latin American==== {{see also|Puerto Rican migration to New York City|Hispanics and Latinos in New Jersey}} The diverse [[Race and ethnicity in the United States|Hispanic and Latin American]] population in Bergen is growing in many areas of the county but is especially concentrated in a handful of municipalities, including [[Fairview, New Jersey|Fairview]] (37.1%), [[Hackensack, New Jersey|Hackensack]] (25.9%), [[Ridgefield Park, New Jersey|Ridgefield Park]] (22.2%), [[Englewood, New Jersey|Englewood]] (21.8%), [[Bogota, New Jersey|Bogota]] (21.3%), [[Garfield, New Jersey|Garfield]] (20.1%), [[Cliffside Park, New Jersey|Cliffside Park]] (18.2%), [[Lodi, New Jersey|Lodi]] (18.0%), and [[Bergenfield, New Jersey|Bergenfield]] (17.0%).<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=ChangeGeoContext&geo_id=16000US3422560&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=fairview&_cityTown=fairview&_state=04000US34&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=®=&_keyword=&_industry= Census data for Fairview borough] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200212050352/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=ChangeGeoContext&geo_id=16000US3422560&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=fairview&_cityTown=fairview&_state=04000US34&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=®=&_keyword=&_industry= |date=February 12, 2020 }}, [[United States Census Bureau]], Accessed March 29, 2007</ref> Traditionally, many of the [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]] residents were of [[Colombian people|Colombian]] and [[Cubans|Cuban]] ancestry, although that has been changing in recent years. Englewood's Colombian community is the largest in Bergen County and among the top ten by percent of population in the United States (7.17%); Hackensack, Fairview, Bergenfield, Bogota, and Lodi also have notable populations.<ref>[http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Colombian.html Colombian Ancestry by City.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011163422/http://epodunk.com/ancestry/Colombian.html |date=October 11, 2007 }}, [[EPodunk]]. Accessed April 6, 2007.</ref> The Cuban population is largest in Fairview, Ridgefield Park, [[Ridgefield, New Jersey|Ridgefield]], and Bogota, although the Cuban community is much bigger in [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson County]] to the south.<ref>[http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Cuban.html Cuban Ancestry by City.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122040230/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Cuban.html |date=November 22, 2012 }} [[EPodunk]]. Accessed April 6, 2007.</ref> Since 2000, an increasing number of immigrants from other countries (including [[Peru]], [[Mexico]], [[Guatemala]], [[El Salvador]], the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Ecuador]], and [[Chile]]) as well as from the [[U.S. territory]] of [[Puerto Rico]] have entered the county. The diverse backgrounds of the local Latino community are best exemplified in Fairview, where 10% of the overall population hails from [[Central America]], 7% from [[South America]], and 9% from other Latin American countries, mainly those in the Caribbean. The borough of Fairview has the highest percentage of people of Salvadoran and [[Salvadoran American]] ancestry in the county, 12.4%.<ref>[http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genealogyInfo.php?locIndex=18588 Fairview, NJ Ancestry & Family History]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111202926/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genealogyInfo.php?locIndex=18588|date=November 11, 2007}}. [[EPodunk]]. Accessed April 6, 2007.</ref> The city of Hackensack has the highest percentage of people of Ecuadorian and [[Ecuadorian American]] ancestry in the county, 10.01%, with a total of approximately 4,500 living within city limits.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}} Overall, Bergen County's Latino population has demonstrated a robust increase recently, growing from 145,281 as of the 2010 census count<ref name=Census2010>[https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/34003,34,00 State & County QuickFacts β Bergen County, New Jersey], [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed April 5, 2017.</ref> to an estimated 165,442 as of 2013.<ref name="http"/>
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