Saint Lucian Americans

Saint Lucian Americans
Total population
	14,592 (2010 US Census
Regions with significant populations
	New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas
Languages
	English (American English, Saint Lucian English), Saint Lucian Creole French
Religion
	Christianity

Last updated November 28, 2025

Saint Lucian Americans are Americans of full or partial Saint Lucian ancestry.

History

Before 1965, Saint Lucians preferred the United Kingdom as a migratory destination. Saint Lucians then have shown a marked preference to immigrate to the United States as a migratory destination after 1965. Between 1965 and 2000, more than 70% of emigrating Saint Lucians went to the United States. More than 15,000 Saint Lucians had migrated and permanently resided in the United States by the late 1990s. Many of Saint Lucian immigrants settled in New York metropolitan area.^[3]

Notable people

References

↑ "SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES 2006-2010. American Community Survey Population Tables". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
↑ "U.S. Immigrant Population by State and County". migrationpolicy.org. 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
↑ Kwéyòl in Postcolonial Saint Lucia: Globalization, Language Planning, and National Development. p. 91.

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[ancestry2010-1] "SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES 2006-2010. American Community Survey Population Tables". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2014-12-26.

[2] "U.S. Immigrant Population by State and County". migrationpolicy.org. 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2025-01-02.

[3] Kwéyòl in Postcolonial Saint Lucia: Globalization, Language Planning, and National Development. p. 91.

[note_n11-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Part of the National Council of Churches

[note_n0-5] 1 2 Not in communion with the rest of the Catholic Church

[note_n6-6] Those are traditions and denominations that trace their history back to the Protestant Reformation or otherwise heavily borrow from the practices and beliefs of the Protestant Reformers.

[note_n3-7] This denomination is the result of a merger between Lutheran, German Reformed, Congregational and Restorationist churches.

[note_n1-8] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Part of the National Association of Evangelicals

[note_n4-9] 1 2 3 4 This refers to the denomination's heritage and not necessarily to the language in which the services are conducted in.

[note_n5-10] This is a reformed synod within the United Church of Christ that is distinct in heritage, doctrine and practice from the rest of the denomination.

[note_n2-11] 1 2 Outside the Anglican Communion

[note_n8-12] 1 2 3 4 5 6 This is more of a movement then an institutionalized denomination.

[note_n10-13] Denominations that don't fit in the subsets mentioned above.

[note_n7-14] Those are traditions and denominations that trace their origin back to the Great Awakenings and/or are joined together by a common belief that Christianity should be restored along the lines of what is known about the apostolic early church.

[note_n9-15] The Holiness movement is an interdenominational movement that spreads over multiple traditions (Methodist, Quakers, Anabaptist, Baptist, etc.). However, here are mentioned only those denominations that are part of Restorationism as well as the Holiness movement, but are not part of any other Protestant tradition.

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v t e Caribbean Americans
Anglo-Caribbean	Antiguan and Barbudan Bahamian Barbadian Belizean Garifuna Bermudian Dominican (Dominica) Grenadian Guyanese Jamaican Kittian and Nevisian Saint Lucian Trinidadian and Tobagonian Vincentian
Americo-Caribbean	Puerto Rican Virgin Islands
Franco-Caribbean	Haitian Guadeloupean Martiniquan
Hispano-Caribbean	Cuban Dominican (Dominican Republic) Panamanian Puerto Rican
Dutch Caribbean	Dutch West Indians Surinamese
Ethnic groups	Indo-Caribbean Americans

Saint Lucian Americans

Contents

History

Notable people

See also

References

Total population
14,592^[1] (2010 US Census)
Regions with significant populations
New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas
Languages
English (American English, Saint Lucian English), Saint Lucian Creole French
Religion
Christianity