Demographics of Asian Americans

The demographics of Asian Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who trace their ancestry to one or more Asian countries.^[1][2][3] Because Asian Americans total about 5.6% of the entire US population, diversity within the group is often overlooked in media treatment.^[4][5][6][7]

Asian American population percentage by state in 2010.

Asian county percentage map, 2010

Background

The first recorded Asian Americans in the continental United States were a group of Filipino men who established the small settlement of Saint Malo, Louisiana, after fleeing mistreatment aboard Spanish ships.^[8] Since there were no women with them, the Manilamen, as they were known, married Cajun and Native American women.^[9] In 1778, Chinese and European explorers first arrived in Hawaii.^[10][11] Numerous Chinese and Japanese began immigrating to the US in the mid-19th century;^[12] numerous Chinese immigrants worked as laborers on the First Transcontinental Railroad, many who immigrated due to overpopulation and poverty experienced in Canton Province.^[13] In the mid-20th century, refugees from Southeast Asia fled wars in the homelands to come to the United States.^[14] Most Asian Americans who immigrated to the United States arrived after 1965, due to immigration reform that ended an earlier era of exclusion of Asian immigrants.^[15]

Population

Asian population density

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1860	34,933	—
1870	63,254	+81.1%
1880	105,613	+67.0%
1890	109,527	+3.7%
1900	114,189	+4.3%
1910	146,863	+28.6%
1920	182,137	+24.0%
1930	264,766	+45.4%
1940	254,918	−3.7%
1950	321,033	+25.9%
1960	980,337	+205.4%
1970	1,538,721	+57.0%
1980	3,500,439	+127.5%
1990	6,908,638	+97.4%
2000	11,896,828	+72.2%
2010	17,320,856	+45.6%
2013 est.	19,437,463	+12.2%
Sources[16][17] 2000 & 2010 figures include Multiracial Asian American Americans 1910, 1920, 1930, 1960, 1970, and 1980 include Pacific Islands American population numbers[18][19]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Asian American population, including those of multiracial and Hispanic and Latino ancestry, had increased to 18,205,898 by 2011.^[20]

During the 2010 United States Census, there were a total of 17,320,856 Asian Americans, including Multiracial Americans identifying as part Asian. This made Asian Americans 5.6 percent of the total American population.^[21] The largest ethnic groups represented in the census were Chinese (3.79 million), Filipino (3.41 million), Indian (3.18 million), Vietnamese (1.73 million), Korean (1.7 million), and Japanese (1.3 million).^[22][23] Other sizable ethnic groups include Pakistani (409,000), Cambodian (276,000), Hmong (260,000), Thai (237,000), Laotian (232,000), Taiwanese (230,000), Bangladeshi (147,000), and Burmese (100,000).^[22] The total population of Asian Americans grew by 46 percent from 2000 to 2010 according to the Census Bureau, which constituted the largest increase of any major racial group during that period.^[24] In 2010, there were an estimated 11,284,000 foreign born individuals who were born in Asia, of whom 57.7% had become naturalized citizens.^[25] Additionally, 209,128 were Hispanic and Latino, of whom the largest population (101,654) claim Mexico as their nation of origin.^[26]

The 2000 census recorded 11.9 million people (4.2 percent of the total population) who reported themselves as having either full or partial Asian heritage.^[27] The largest ethnic subgroups were Chinese (2.7 million), Filipino (2.4 million), Indian (1.9 million), Vietnamese (1.2 million), Korean (1.2 million), and Japanese (1.1 million). Other sizable groups included Cambodians (206,000), Pakistanis (204,000), Lao (198,000), Hmong (186,000), and Thais (150,000).^[27] About one-half of the Asian American population lived in the West, with California having the most total Asian Americans of any state, at 4.2 million.^[27] As a proportion of the total population, Hawaii is the only state with an Asian American majority population, at 58 percent;^[27] Honolulu County had the highest percentage of Asian Americans of any county in the nation, with 62 percent.^[27] In 2000, 69 percent of all Asian Americans were foreign born, although Japanese Americans, 60 percent of whom were born in the United States, bucked this trend.^[28]

The Twenty-first United States Census, conducted in 1990, recorded 6.9 million people who were called American Asians.^[29] The largest ethnic groups were Chinese (23.8 percent), Filipino (20.4 percent), Japanese (12.3 percent), Indian (11.8 percent), Korean (11.6 percent), Vietnamese (8.9 percent), and Laotian (2.2 percent).^[29] Smaller populations, of less than two percent, were documented of the following ethnicities: Cambodian, Thai, Hmong, Pakistani, Indonesian, Malay, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, and Burmese.^[29] Two thirds of "American Asians" lived in the five states of California, New York, Hawaii, Texas, and Illinois; additionally their highest population concentrations were in California, New York, and Hawaii.^[29] In 1990, 66 percent of American Asians were foreign born, with Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians having this highest foreign born populations.^[29]

Distribution

The Asian American population is greatly urbanized, with nearly three-quarters of them living in metropolitan areas with population greater than 2.5 million. The three metropolitan areas with the highest Asian American populations are the Greater Los Angeles Area (1.868 million in 2007), the New York metropolitan area (1.782 million in 2007), and the San Francisco Bay Area (979,000 in 2007).[30] New York City proper, according to the United States 2010 Census, is home to more than one million Asian Americans, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles.[31] Among the ten largest US cities, San Diego has the greatest proportion of Asian Americans.[32] According to the 2010 Census almost three quarters of all Asian Americans live in California, New York, Texas, New Jersey, Hawaii, Illinois, Washington, Florida, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.[17] A large proportion of all Asian Americans live in California (5.6 million in 2010),[24][33] New York (1.6 million in 2010),[24] and Texas (1.1 million in 2010).[17] Another state with a significant Asian American population is Massachusetts.[34] Hawaii had the largest proportion of Asian Americans, with 57% of the state population identifying as Asian or multiracial with at least one part Asian.[24] In Vermont in 2008, Asian Americans were the largest minority.[35] Asian American populations have grown significantly since the 1970s. However, they are underrepresented in several large urban areas, such as Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas and Atlanta, although in some cases, Asian Americans are concentrated in specific urban neighborhoods or suburbs of these cities. In regions with large numbers of Asian Americans, communities have developed that are heavily or predominantly Asian. Schools in these areas may offer instruction in languages such as Mandarin. These communities are often given unofficial names to reflect their populations, such as Chinatown, Little Manila, Little India, Little Pakistans, Koreatown, Little Saigons, and Cambodia Town.

Metropolitan areas with the highest population of Asian Americans (greater than 250,000 people)(2010 Census)[36] Metropolitan area Total % of total population Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA Metro Area 1,884,669 14.7% New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area 1,878,261 9.9% San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area 1,005,823 23.2% San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area 571,967 31.1% Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI Metro Area 532,801 5.6% Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area 517,458 9.3% Honolulu, HI Metro Area 477,503 43.9% Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro Area 392,961 11.4% Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX Metro Area 389,007 6.5% Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area 341,503 5.4% San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA Metro Area 336,091 10.9% Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area 295,766 5.0% Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH Metro Area 294,503 6.5% Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area 259,071 6.1% Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA Metro Area 255,995 11.9% Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA Metro Area 254,307 4.8% Metropolitan Areas with the Highest Proportion of Asian Americans (2000 Census)[37] Metropolitan Area Total population % of Asian Americans Honolulu, HI MSA 876,156 46.0 San Francisco Bay Area 7,039,362 18.4 Greater Los Angeles Area 16,373,645 10.4 Sacramento/Yolo, CA CMSA 1,796,857 9.0 San Diego, CA MSA 2,813,833 8.9 Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area 3,554,760 7.9 New York metropolitan area 21,199,865 6.8 Portland 538,544 6.3 Anchorage, Alaska 270,951 5.5 Baltimore-Washington (AA demographics) 7,608,070 5.3 Greater Houston 4,669,571 4.9 Clark County, Nevada, NV/AZ MSA 1,563,282 4.7

Trends

Asian Americans, on average, have higher incomes and education levels than White Americans. However, they also have higher poverty rates and lower home ownership rates.^[38] In addition, homeownership among Asian Americans has increased by twice as much as white Americans in recent years (see Homeownership in the United States). Since the majority of the Asian American population is urbanized it usually offers more access to an educational environment as well as academic supplies. With that being said, Asian Americans will tend to find better access to higher paying jobs because of their better access to resources. Also, rural settings require farm hands which will prevent children and teenagers from completing highschool and graduating with a diploma. Their daily tasks may include packaging, cultivating, harvesting, and watering. For rural families, helping out with the family business may be a more immediate concern that education.^[6]

Education

Asian Americans have the highest educational attainment of any racial group in the country; about 49.8% of them have at least a bachelor's degree.^[39] Since the 1990s, Asian American students often have the highest math averages in standardized tests such as the SAT^[40][41] and GRE.^[42] Their verbal scores generally lag, but their combined scores are usually higher than those of white Americans.^[40] The proportion of Asian Americans at many selective educational institutions far exceeds the national population rate. Asians constitute around 10–20 percent of those attending Ivy League^[43][44] and other elite universities. Asian Americans are the largest racial group on seven of the nine University of California campuses,^[45] are the largest racial group of undergraduates in the system,^[46] and make up more than a quarter of graduate and professional students.^[47] Asian Americans are more likely to attend college,^[48] are more likely to apply to competitive colleges,^[49] and have significantly higher college completion level than other races.^[39] According to a poll targeting Asian Americans in 14 states and the District of Columbia conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund in 2013, 40 percent of Asian Americans have a college degree, with almost a quarter of them having achieved an education attainment greater than a bachelor's degree.^[50] That same year, Asian Americans in their late thirties had the highest percentage (65%) of college graduates for that age group than any other race or ethnicity in the United States.^[51]

However, there are concerns that the goal of diversity in American higher education has had a negative effect on Asians, with charges of quotas and discrimination starting in the 1980s.^{[52][53][54][55]} Asian American test scores are also bimodal—Asians are overrepresented both at high scores and low scores.^[56][57]

Income

While Asian Americans have higher household and personal income levels than any other racial demographic, the Asian poverty rate is higher than that of European Americans.[58] In 2005, the median per capita income for Asian Americans was estimated at $27,331, compared to $26,496 for Whites, $16,874 for African Americans, and $14,483 for those identifying as Hispanic or Latino; the median household income of Asian Americans was estimated at $61,094, compared to $48,554 for European Americans.[59] Additionally 28 percent of Asian American households had incomes exceeding $100,000, compared to 18 percent of the overall population.[60] In 2006, Asian American households were slightly larger than other households, with fewer households with no earners.[61] In 2008, Asian American households had the highest median income in the US, at $65,637; however, 11.8 percent of Asians were in poverty in 2004, a higher than the 8.6 percent rate for non-Hispanic whites.[62] This is largely due to the fact that a high percentage of Asian Americans are immigrants, and independently of race, immigrants are more likely than the native-born to be poor. Once country of birth and other demographic factors are taken into account, Asian Americans are no more likely than non-hispanic whites to live in poverty.[63] Much of this poverty is concentrated in ethnic enclaves, such as Chinatowns.[64] In 2010, the median household income of Asian Americans had increased to $67,022.[65] As with educational achievement, economic prosperity is not uniform among all Asian American groups.[66] Census figures also show that an average white male with a college diploma earns around $66,000 a year, while similarly educated Asian men earn around $52,000 a year.[67]

Median household and personal income along racial lines.[68][69] Household income distribution, by race/ethnicity, 2009 Source: United States Census Bureau[70] Race/ethnic group Type of income <$15k $15k- $25k $25k- $35k $35k- $50k $50k- $75k $75k- $100k >$100k All Americans Households 13.0% 11.9% 11.1% 14.1% 18.1% 11.5% 20.1% European Americans Households 11.4% 11.6% 10.8% 14.2% 18.7% 12.0% 21.4% African Americans Households 23.5% 15.4% 13.4% 14.5% 15.1% 8.7% 9.3% Asian & Pacific Islanders Households 11.7% 7.9% 8.2% 11.1% 16.9% 11.8% 32.4% Hispanic or Latino Households 16.5% 15.2% 14.3% 15.4% 17.6% 9.1% 11.7%

Population growth

Asian American population growth is fueled largely by immigration. Natural population growth accounts for a small proportion of the 43 percent increase in total Asian American population between 2000 and 2010.^[17]

Asian American alone Group Population 2000 Population 2010 Percent change Bangladeshi 46,905 142,080 202.9% Bhutanese 192 18,814 9,699.0% Burmese 14,620 95,536 553.5% Cambodian 183,769 255,497 39.0% Chinese 2,564,190 3,535,382 37.9% Filipino 1,908,125 2,649,973 38.9% Hmong 174,712 252,323 44.4% Indian 1,718,778 2,918,807 69.8% Indonesian 44,186 63,383 69.7% Japanese 852,237 841,824 −1.2% Korean 1,099,422 1,463,474 33.1% Laotian 179,103 209,646 17.1% Malaysian 15,029 21,868 45.5% Maldivian 29 102 251.7% Mongolian 3,699 15,138 309.2% Nepalese 8,209 57,209 596.9% Okinawan 6,138 5,681 −7.4% Pakistani 164,628 382,994 132.6% Singaporean 2,017 4,569 126.5% Sri Lankan 21,364 41,456 94.0% Taiwanese 118,827 199,387 67.6% Thai 120,918 182,872 51.2% Vietnamese 1,169,672 1,632,717 39.6% Other Asian, not specified 162,913 238,332 46.3% Total 10,242,998 14,674,252 43.3%

With multiracial identifiers Group Population 2000 Population 2010 Percent change Bangladeshi 57,412 147,300 156.6% Bhutanese 212 19,439 9,069.3% Burmese 16,720 100,200 499.3% Cambodian 206,052 276,667 34.3% Chinese 2,865,232 4,010,114 40.0% Filipino 2,364,815 3,416,840 44.5% Hmong 186,310 260,073 39.6% Indian 1,899,599 3,183,063 67.6% Indonesian 63,073 95,270 51.0% Japanese 1,148,932 1,304,286 13.5% Korean 1,228,427 1,706,822 38.9% Laotian 198,203 232,130 17.1% Malaysian 18,566 26,179 41.0% Maldivian 51 127 149.0% Mongolian 5,868 18,344 212.6% Nepalese 9,399 59,490 532.9% Okinawan 10,599 11,326 6.9% Pakistani 204,309 409,163 100.3% Singaporean 2,394 5,347 123.4% Sri Lankan 24,587 45,381 84.6% Taiwanese 132,038 215,582 65.2% Thai 150,283 237,583 58.1% Vietnamese 1,223,736 1,737,433 42.0% Other Asian, not specified 376,723 623,761 65.6% Total 11,898,828 17,320,856 45.6%

Language

In 2010, there were 2.8 million people (5 and older) who spoke a Chinese language at home;^[71] after Spanish language it is the most common non-English language in the United States.^[71] Other sizeable Asian languages are Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean, with all three having more than 1 million speakers in the United States.^[71] In 2012, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Washington were publishing election material in Asian languages in accordance with the Voting Rights Act;^[72] these languages include Tagalog, Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, Hindi and Bengali.^[72] Election materials were also available in Gujarati, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, and Thai.^[73] According to a poll conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund in 2013, it found that 48 percent of Asian Americans considered media in their native language as their primary news source.^[74]

According to the 2000 Census, the more prominent languages of the Asian American community include the Chinese languages (Cantonese, Taishanese, and Hokkien), Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Urdu, and Gujarati.^[75] In 2008, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese languages are all used in elections in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington state.^[76]

Religion

Asian Americans' religious preferences are wide ranging, and tends to be more diverse than among other races in the United States.^[77] The growth of Asian American immigration since 1965 has contributed to this diversity.^[78] Until recently, a dearth of scholarship regarding Asian American religious beliefs led to a stereotype that Asian Americans are not religious or spiritual.^[79] Although 59 percent of Asian Americans believe strongly in the existence of one or more gods exist, 30 percent identify as "secular" or "somewhat secular." Only 39 percent of Asian American households belong to a local church or temple, due to atheism or adherence to Eastern religions without congregational traditions.^[80]

Although no one religious affiliation claims a majority of Asian Americans, about 45 percent of them adhere to some form of Christianity.^[81][82] A Trinity College survey, conducted in 2008, found that 38 percent of Christian Asian Americans are Catholic;^[83] Filipino Americans are majority Catholic, and a significant minority of Vietnamese Americans are as well.^[78] The Trinity survey also found that of all demographic populations, Asian Americans had the highest number of respondents who did not claim a religion or refused to divulge their religious affiliation.^[83] Various surveys have put this number between 23 to 27 percent of Asian Americans.^[82][83] Additionally, the Trinity College survey found that 8% of Asian Americans are Muslim;^[83] many of these Muslim Asian Americans come from, or trace their ancestry to, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan.^[84][85]

A Gallup poll conducted in 2010 found that Asian Americans were the group least likely to say that religion was important in their daily lives, although a 54 percent majority of respondents still said that religion was important in their daily lives.^[86] In 2012, a survey was conducted by the Pew Research Center of the Faiths of Asian Americans, it found that Christianity had the largest plurality (42%) of Asian American respondents, followed by those who were unaffiliated (26%).^[87] The three next largest faiths, of those who responded, were Buddhist (14%), Hindu (10%), and Muslim (4%).^[87]

Sexuality

According to a Gallup survey conducted from June to September 2012, 4.3 percent of Asian Americans self identify as LGBT. This compares with 3.4 percent of African-Americans, 4 percent of Hispanic-Americans, 4.6 percent of Caucasian-Americans, and the overall 3.4 percent of American adults that self identify as LGBT in the total population.^[88]

US States by Asian American population

State/Territory	Asian American Population (2010)[17][89]	Percentage Asian American (2010)[17]	Chinese[90]	Filipino[91]	Indian[92]	Japanese[93]	Korean[94]	Vietnamese[95]	Other Asian
Alabama	67,036	1.4	11,154	8,224	14,951	4,336	10,624	8,488	9,259
Alaska	50,402	7.1	3,726	25,424	1,911	3,926	6,542	1,446	7,427
Arizona	230,907	3.6	42,331	53,067	40,510	19,611	21,125	27,872	26,391
Arkansas	44,943	1.5	6,301	6,396	7,973	2,384	3,247	6,302	12,340
California	5,556,592	14.9	1,451,537	1,474,707	590,445	428,014	505,225	647,589	459,075
Colorado	185,589	3.7	33,344	26,242	24,135	22,714	28,177	23,933	27,044
Connecticut	157,088	4.4	36,483	16,402	50,806	6,203	11,760	10,804	24,630
Delaware	33,701	3.8	7,033	4,637	12,344	1,196	3,099	1,688	3,704
District of Columbia	26,857	4.5	6,583	3,670	6,417	2,010	2,990	1,856	3,331
Florida	573,083	3.0	94,244	122,691	151,438	25,747	35,629	65,772	77,562
Georgia	365,497	3.8	54,298	28,528	105,444	14,247	60,836	49,264	52,880
Hawaii	780,968	57.4	199,751	342,095	4,737	312,292	48,699	13,266	139,872
Idaho	29,698	1.9	5,473	6,211	2,786	5,698	2,806	2,154	4,570
Illinois	668,694	5.2	119,308	139,090	203,669	28,623	70,263	29,101	78,640
Indiana	126,750	2.0	26,038	16,988	30,947	8,437	13,685	8,175	22,480
Iowa	64,512	2.1	11,494	6,026	12,525	2,854	7,375	9,543	14,695
Kansas	83,930	2.9	13,448	9,399	15,644	4,178	7,756	16,074	17,431
Kentucky	62,029	1.4	10,512	8,402	14,253	6,197	7,264	5,813	9,588
Louisiana	84,335	1.9	11,953	10,243	13,147	3,117	4,752	30,202	10,921
Maine	18,333	1.4	4,390	2,918	2,397	1,181	1,741	2,170	3,536
Maryland	370,044	6.4	79,660	56,909	88,709	12,826	55,051	26,605	50,284
Massachusetts	394,211	6.0	136,866	18,673	85,441	15,358	28,904	47,636	61,343
Michigan	289,607	2.9	51,525	32,324	84,750	17,412	30,292	19,456	53,848
Minnesota[96]	247,132	4.7	30,047	15,660	38,097	7,995	20,995	27,086	107,252
Mississippi	32,560	1.1	5,333	5,638	6,458	807	2,301	7,721	4,302
Missouri	123,571	2.1	26,001	17,706	26,263	7,084	12,689	16,530	17,298
Montana	10,482	1.1	1,919	2,829	930	1,854	1,369	481	1,100
Nebraska	40,561	2.2	5,730	4,900	6,708	3,106	3,815	8,677	7,625
Nevada	242,916	9.0	39,448	123,891	14,290	21,364	18,518	12,366	13,039
New Hampshire	34,522	2.6	7,652	3,369	9,075	1,842	3,021	2,907	6,686
New Jersey	795,163	9.0	149,356	126,793	311,310	19,710	100,334	23,535	64,125
New Mexico	40,456	2.0	7,668	8,535	5,727	4,889	3,760	5,403	4,474
New York	1,579,494	8.2	615,932	126,129	368,767	51,781	153,609	34,510	228,763
North Carolina	252,585	2.6	40,820	29,314	63,852	12,878	25,420	30,665	49,636
North Dakota	9,193	1.4	1,762	1,704	1,740	628	933	791	1,635
Ohio	238,292	2.1	50,870	27,661	71,211	16,995	21,207	15,639	34,706
Oklahoma	84,170	2.2	11,658	10,850	14,078	5,580	9,072	18,098	14,834
Oregon	186,281	4.9	41,374	29,101	20,200	24,535	20,395	29,485	21,191
Pennsylvania	402,587	3.2	96,606	33,021	113,389	12,699	47,429	44,605	54,838
Rhode Island	36,763	3.5	8,228	4,117	5,645	1,455	2,658	1,615	13,045
South Carolina	75,674	1.6	11,706	15,228	17,961	4,745	7,162	7,840	11,032
South Dakota	10,216	1.3	1,570	1,864	1,433	696	1,179	1,002	2,472
Tennessee	113,398	1.8	18,313	14,409	26,619	6,955	13,245	11,351	22,506
Texas	1,110,666	4.4	182,477	137,713	269,327	37,715	85,332	227,968	170,134
Utah	77,748	2.8	16,358	10,657	7,598	12,782	7,888	9,338	13,127
Vermont	10,463	1.7	2,833	1,035	1,723	842	1,271	1,206	1,553
Virginia	522,199	6.5	72,585	90,493	114,471	20,138	82,006	59,984	82,522
Washington	604,251	9.0	120,814	137,083	68,978	67,597	80,049	75,843	53,887
West Virginia	16,465	0.9	3,208	3,059	3,969	1,159	1,571	1,104	2,395
Wisconsin	151,513	2.7	21,054	13,158	25,998	5,967	10,949	6,191	68,196
Wyoming	6,729	1.2	1,340	1,657	739	982	803	283	925
Puerto Rico	10,464	0.3	2,751	445	5,475	313	205	232	1,043
United States of America	17,320,856	5.6	4,010,114	3,416,840	3,183,063	1,304,286	1,706,822	1,737,433	1,962,298

The above list displays the population of Asian Americans ("Alone, or in combination") in US states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, according to the 2010 United States Census; Data for American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands have not yet been released.
Chinese Americans figures include Taiwanese Americans

See also

• List of U.S. cities with Asian American majority populations

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External links

• Asians in America: A Demographic Overview American Immigration Council
• Asian-Nation Asian American Socioeconomic Statistics and Comparisons
• "Demographics of Asian Americans". Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends. Pew Research Center. 4 April 2013.