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{{short description|Demographics of Asian Americans}}(File:Asian Americans by state.svg|thumb|upright=2.5|Proportion of Asian Americans in each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census)File:Asian Americans by county.png|thumb|upright=2.5|Proportion of Asian Americans in each county of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census2020 United States CensusThe demographics of Asian Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who trace their ancestry to one or more Asian countries.NEWS, Asian Population in U.S. Grew by 70% in the 80's, Felicity Barringer,weblink New York Times, March 2, 1990, January 10, 2013, BOOK, Lowe, Lisa, Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences, A Companion to Asian American Studies, Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies,weblink Kent A., Ono, January 10, 2013, 2004, John Wiley & Sons, 978-1-4051-1595-7, 272, JOURNAL, Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences, Spring 1991, 1911-1568, 10.1353/dsp.1991.0014, 1, 1, 24–44, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Lisa, Lowe, 145316941, Manilamen began to reside in Louisiana as the first Asian Americans to live in the continental in the United States. Most Asian Americans have arrived after 1965. These individuals make up one-quarter of all immigrants who have arrived in the U.S. since 1965, and 59% of Asian Americans are foreign-born. During the 2010 United States Census the largest ethnic groups were Chinese American, Filipino Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, and Japanese Americans.The 2020 United States Census reported approximately 19.9 million people identified as Asian alone in 2020. Adding in the 4.1 million respondents who identified as Asian in combination with another race group, the Asian American population comprised 24 million people (7.2% of the total population).WEB,weblink 2020 Census Illuminates Racial and Ethnic Composition of the Country, 2020, United States Census, September 4, 2021, The overall population is highly urbanized and is concentrated in the West Coast of the United States and New York metropolitan area. Generally, Asian Americans are well educated, and Asian American households have higher average incomes. However, socioeconomic status is not uniform among their population.WEB,weblink Asian American Immigration Status, Liza, Weingarten, Raymond Arthur, Smith, 2009, Majority Rule and Minority Rights Issue Briefs, Columbia University, March 4, 2012, Asian Americans hold diverse religious views, with substantial numbers being religiously unaffiliated or secular, Christian, Hindu, and Muslim. About 4-5% of Asian Americans identify as LGBT.WEB,weblink In U.S., Estimate of LGBT Population Rises to 4.5%, Frank, Newport, 22 May 2018, Gallup.com, en-us, 10 December 2019,

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.WEB,weblink Filipinos in Louisiana, PBS, January 5, 2011, Since there were no women with them, the Manilamen, as they were known, married Cajun and Native American women.BOOK, Southeast Asian Americans, Wachtel, Alan, 2009, Marshall Cavendish, 978-0-7614-4312-4, 80,weblink December 5, 2010, In 1778, Chinese and European explorers first arrived in Hawaii.WEB,weblink Chinese Merchant-Adventurers and Sugar Masters in Hawaii: 1802–1852, Wai-Jane Cha, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, January 14, 2011, WEB,weblinkweblink" title="archive.today/20130117093945weblink">weblink dead, January 17, 2013, The Chinese Experience in Hawaii, Kalikiano Kalei, August 12, 2010, University of Hawai'i Press, January 14, 2011, Numerous Chinese and Japanese began immigrating to the US in the mid-19th century;JOURNAL, Walter, Yvonne, 2000, Asian Americans and American Immigration and Naturalization Policy, American Studies Journal, 45, Summer, 1433-5239

Population

(File:Asian-census density map.png|400px|thumb|left|Asian population density){{Historical populations|type=USA|align=right style="background-color:#EFEFEF;"!Metropolitan area!width="75"| Total!width="75"|% of total population

Metropolitan areas with the highest population of Asian Americans (greater than 250,000 people)(2010 Census)AMERICA'S ASIAN POPULATION PATTERNS 2000–2010,weblink U.S. Census Bureau, July 19, 2012,

34933

63254

105613

109527

114189

146863

182137

264766

254918

321033

980337

1538721

3500439

6908638

11896828

17320856

24000998

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TITLE=HISTORICAL CENSUS STATISTICS ON POPULATION TOTALS BY RACE, 1790 TO 1990, AND BY HISPANIC ORIGIN, 1970 TO 1990, FOR THE UNITED STATES, REGIONS, DIVISIONS, AND STATES

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ARCHIVE-DATE=FEBRUARY 14, 2020, dead, Beginning in 2000 and continuing through the latest census, figures now include Multiracial Asian American Americans1910, 1920, 1930, 1960, 1970, and 1980 include Pacific Islands American population numbersWEB,weblink Most Children Younger Than Age 1 are Minorities, Census Bureau Reports – Population – Newsroom – U.S. Census Bureau, United States Census Bureau, May 17, 2012, November 13, 2012, WEB,weblinkweblink" title="archive.today/20200212212835weblink">weblink dead, February 12, 2020, American FactFinder – Results, Factfinder2.census.gov, August 17, 2018, }}According to the United States Census Bureau, the Asian American population, including those of multiracial and Hispanic and Latino ancestry, per its 2017 American Community Survey was about 22,408,464.WEB,weblink Asian Alone or in Any Combination by Selected Groups, 2017, American Fact Finder, United States Census Bureau, 24 February 2019, Total Groups Tallied: 22,408,464 +/-43,477,weblink 13 February 2020, dead, 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.WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110429214029weblink">weblink dead, 2011-04-29, Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010, Karen R., Humes, Nicholas A., Jones, Roberto R., Ramirez, March 2011, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, December 25, 2011, 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).WEB,weblinkweblink" title="archive.today/20200212213039weblink">weblink dead, February 12, 2020, ASIAN ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH ONE OR MORE OTHER RACES, AND WITH ONE OR MORE ASIAN CATEGORIES FOR SELECTED GROUPS, 2011, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, December 25, 2011, WEB,weblink The Asian Population in the United States, United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerece, 18 August 2014,weblink 19 August 2014, dead, Other sizable ethnic groups include Pakistani (409,000), Cambodian (276,000), Hmong (260,000), Thai (237,000), Laotian (232,000), Bangladeshi (147,000), and Burmese (100,000). 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.WEB,weblink Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: May 2011, December 7, 2011, Facts for Features, United States Census Bureau, January 4, 2012, 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.WEB,weblink The Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2010, Elizabeth M. Grieco, Yesenia D. Acosta, G. Petricia de la Cruz, Christine Gambino, Thomas Gryn, Luke J. Larsen, Edward N. Trevelyan, Nathan P. Walters, May 2012, American Community Survey Reports, United States Census Bureau, April 5, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150209224630weblink">weblink February 9, 2015, dead, Additionally, 209,128 were Hispanic and Latino, of whom the largest population (101,654) claim Mexico as their nation of origin.WEB,weblink The Hispanic Population: 2010, Sharon R. Ennis, Merays Rios-Vargas, Nora G. Albert, May 2011, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, May 26, 2013, 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. 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).WEB,weblink The Asian Population: 2000, Barnes, Jessica S., Bennett, Claudette E., February 2002, Census 2000, United States Census Bureau, January 10, 2013, 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. As a proportion of the total population, Hawaii is the only state with an Asian American majority population, at 58 percent;{{refn|group=note|In terms of Asians alone (not mixed with any other race), Hawaii's population was 37.6% Asian in 2019 (a plurality of the population)weblink U.S. Census Bureau. QuickFacts – Hawaii. Retrieved July 26, 2020.}} Honolulu County had the highest percentage of Asian Americans of any county in the nation, with 62 percent. In 2000, 69 percent of all Asian Americans were foreign born, except Japanese Americans, 60 percent of whom were born in the United States.WEB,weblink We the People: Asians in the United States, December 2004, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, March 10, 2011, The Twenty-first United States Census, conducted in 1990, recorded 6.9 million people who were called American Asians.WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/19970318080304weblink">weblink dead, March 18, 1997, We the Americans: Asians, Paisano, Edna L., Carroll, Deborah L., June H., Cowles, DeBarros, Kymberly A., Robinson, Ann J., Miles, Kenya N., Harrison, Roderick J., September 1993, Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Commerce, January 10, 2013, mdy-all, 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). Smaller populations, of less than two percent, were documented of the following ethnicities: Cambodian, Thai, Hmong, Pakistani, Indonesian, Malay, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, and Burmese. 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. In 1990, 66 percent of American Asians were foreign-born, with Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians having this highest foreign born populations. Distribution {{Col-begin}}{{Col-2}}The Asian American population is greatly urbanized, with nearly three-quarters of them living in metropolitan areas with population greater than 2.5 million.REPORT, Lott, Juanita Tamayo, Juanita Tamayo Lott, 9 January 2004, Asian-American Children Are Members of a Diverse and Urban Population,weblink Population Reference Bureau, 6 April 2018, JOURNAL, Hune, Shirley, 16 April 2002, Demographics and Diversity of Asian American College Students, New Directions for Student Services, 2002, 97, 11–20, 10.1002/ss.35, BOOK, Franklin Ng, The History and Immigration of Asian Americans,weblink 1998, Taylor & Francis, 978-0-8153-2690-8, 211, BOOK, Xue Lan Rong, Judith Preissle, Educating Immigrant Students in the 21st Century: What Educators Need to Know,weblink 26 September 2008, SAGE Publications, 978-1-4522-9405-6, 133, 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 (1,577,790 in 2007).WEB, Selected Population Profile in the United States,weblink United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, June 25, 2011,weblink" title="archive.today/20200212041712weblink">weblink February 12, 2020, dead, JOURNAL, Lee, Sharon M., 1998, Asian Americans: Diverse and Growing, Population Bulletin, 53, 2, 1–40, Population Reference Bureau, 12321628,weblink March 9, 2013, January 16, 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170116005353weblink">weblink dead, BOOK, Ng, Franklin, The History and Immigration of Asian Americans,weblink March 9, 2013, 1998, Taylor & Francis, 978-0-8153-2690-8, 211, 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.NEWS,weblink Asian New Yorkers Seek Power to Match Numbers, Kirk, Semple, The New York Times, June 23, 2011, June 24, 2011, Asians, a group more commonly associated with the West Coast, are surging in New York, where they have long been eclipsed in the city's kaleidoscopic racial and ethnic mix. For the first time, according to census figures released in the spring, their numbers have topped one million — nearly 1 in 8 New Yorkers — which is more than the Asian population in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined., This trend of a largely urban population continues to be observed in 2015, with significant populations in more expensive coastal cities, and less than five percent living in rural areas.NEWS, Guo, Jeff, 29 December 2016, The Asian American 'advantage' that is actually an illusion,weblink Washington Post, 17 March 2017, Among the ten largest US cities, San Diego has the greatest proportion of Asian Americans.WEB,weblink Asian American Statistics, © 2011 Améredia Incorporated, June 25, 2011, BOOK, Jessica S. Barnes, Asian Population: 2000: Census 2000 Brief,weblink January 2010, DIANE Publishing, 978-1-4379-2104-5, 7, As of 2017, West (45%) and California (31%) had the most significant concentrations of the total Asian American populations;WEB,weblink Key facts about Asian Americans, a diverse and growing population, Lopez, Gustavo, Ruiz, Niel G., Patten, Eileen, 8 September 2017, FactTank, Pew Research Center, 10 April 2018, this keeps with historic trends of Asian Americans primarily residing in the Western United States, although there is a shift towards other regions of the United States beginning in the late 20th century.BOOK, Edith Wen-Chu Chen, Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today,weblink 2010, ABC-CLIO, 978-0-313-34751-1, 7, BOOK, Pyong Gap Min, Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues,weblink 2006, Pine Forge Press, 978-1-4129-0556-5, 186, BOOK, Mary Yu Danico, Franklin Ng, Asian American Issues,weblink 2004, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-31965-5, 14, 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.WEB,weblink The Asian Population: 2010, Elizabeth M. Hoeffel, Sonya Rastogi, Myoung Ouk Kim, Hasan Shahid, March 2012, 2010 Census Briefs, United States Census Bureau, November 17, 2012, A large proportion of all Asian Americans live in California (5.6 million in 2010),NEWS, Dan Walters, California has by far nation's largest Asian-American population,weblink Sacramento Bee, 21 March 2012, 22 January 2015, New York (1.6 million in 2010), and Texas (1.1 million in 2010). Another state with a significant Asian American population is Massachusetts.WEB,weblink Asian American/Pacific Islander Profile, January 24, 2012, Office of Minority Health, United States Department of Health and Human Services, February 7, 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120204024943weblink">weblink February 4, 2012, dead, 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. In Vermont in 2008, Asian Americans were the largest minority.NEWS, Robert, Bernstein, U.S. Hispanic Population Surpasses 45 Million,weblinkweblinkwww%2Ecensus%2Egov/Press%2DRelease/www/releases/archives/population/011910%2Ehtml, August 31, 2008, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, May 1, 2008, August 24, 2009, Also, two U.S. territories (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands) have large Asian populations — in 2010, Guam's population was 32.2% Asian, and the population of the Northern Mariana Islands was 49.9% Asian.https:factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DPGU_GUDP1&prodType=table {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413071617weblink |date=April 13, 2016 }} weblink {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106145130weblink |date=November 6, 2018 }} American FactFinder. Guam / Northern Mariana Islands Demographic Profile Data (2010). Retrieved July 26, 2020 (archived).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, Japantown, Little Pakistan, Koreatown, Little Saigon, and Little Cambodia.{{Col-2}}{|class="wikitable sortable" style="float:right; font-size:85%; margin-left:15px;"

Los Angeles-Long Beach, California>Long Beach-Santa Ana, California

, CA Greater Los Angeles Area>Metro Area|1,884,669|14.7%

New York City>New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area|1,878,261|9.9%

San Francisco-Oakland, California>Oakland-Fremont, California

, CA San Francisco Bay Area>Metro Area|1,005,823|23.2%

San Jose, California>San Jose-Sunnyvale, California

-Santa Clara, California>Santa Clara, CA Metro Area|571,967|31.1%

Chicago metropolitan area>Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI Metro Area|532,801|5.6%

Washington metropolitan area>Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area|517,458|9.3%

Honolulu County, Hawaii>Honolulu, HI Metro Area|477,503|43.9%

Seattle metropolitan area>Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro Area|392,961|11.4%

Houston-Greater Houston>Sugar Land-Baytown, TX Metro Area|389,007|6.5%

Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex>Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area|341,503|5.4%

San Diego-Carlsbad, California>Carlsbad-San Marcos, California

San Diego County, California>Metro Area|336,091|10.9%

Delaware Valley>Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area|295,766|5.0%

Greater Boston>Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH Metro Area|294,503|6.5%

Inland Empire (California)>Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area|259,071|6.1%

Sacramento metropolitan area>Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA Metro Area|255,995|11.9%

Atlanta metropolitan area>Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA Metro Area|254,307|4.8%

{|class="wikitable" style="float:right; font-size:85%; margin-left:15px;"Metropolitan Areas with the Highest Proportion of Asian Americans (2010 Census)HTTP://QUICKFACTS.CENSUS.GOV/QFD/STATES/02/0203000.HTML, Anchorage (municipality) QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau, 2019-02-19, 2012-09-05,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120905020052weblink">weblink dead, style="background-color:#EFEFEF;"!Metropolitan Area!width="75"|Total population!width="75"|% of Asian Americans|Honolulu, HI MSA|953,207|43.9San Francisco Bay Area|8,153,696|23.3Greater Los Angeles Area|17,877,006|14.7Sacramento, California/Yolo County, California>Yolo, CA CMSA|2,414,783|11.9%Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area|4,274,767|11.4%San Diego, CA MSA|3,095,313|10.9%|New York metropolitan area|23,076,664|9.9%Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area (Greater Washington Area Asian American Demographics>AA demographics)|7,608,070|9.3%Greater Houston|5,920,416|6.5{{Col-end}}

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.WEB,weblink Broad racial disparities persist, NBC News, 14 November 2006, December 18, 2006, In addition, homeownership among Asian Americans has increased by twice as much as white Americans in recent years (see Homeownership in the United States).

Education

{{See also|Education outcomes in the United States by race and other classifications}}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.WEB,weblink Educational Attainment in the United States: 2003, Nicole, Stoops, June 2004, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, February 26, 2012, Since the 1990s, Asian American students often have the highest math averages in standardized tests such as the SATWEB,weblink School Performance, 2004, The Multicultural Families and Adolescents Study, University of California, Riverside, February 26, 2012, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120221225215weblink">weblink February 21, 2012, mdy-all, NEWS, Students' SAT Scores Stay in Rut, Stephanie, Banchero,weblink The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2010, February 26, 2012, and GRE.WEB,weblink Differences in the Survey Responses of Asian American and White Science and Engineering Students, Jerille, Grandy, July 1996, Graduate Record Examinations Board, Educational Testing Service, February 26, 2012, Self-perceived abilities were consistent with GRE scores. The Asian American sample did, in fact, earn higher average GRE quantitative scores and lower average verbal and analytical scores than the White sample did., Their combined scores are usually higher than those of white Americans. The proportion of Asian Americans at many selective educational institutions exceeds the national population rate. Asians constitute around 10–20 percent of those attending Ivy League and other elite universities.NEWS,weblink Do colleges redline Asian-Americans?, Kara Miller, February 8, 2010, The Boston Globe, February 26, 2012, Indeed, as Princeton's Nieli suggests, most elite universities appear determined to keep their Asian-American totals in a narrow range. Yale's class of 2013 is 15.5 percent Asian-American, compared with 16.1 percent at Dartmouth, 19.1 percent at Harvard, and 17.6 percent at Princeton., NEWS,weblink Asian-Americans in the Ivy League: A Portrait of Privilege and Discrimination, Ghosh, Palash R., August 17, 2010, International Business Times, February 26, 2012, January 3, 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120103175516weblink">weblink dead, Asian Americans are the largest racial group on seven of the nine University of California campuses,NEWS, The New Chinese Exclusion Act, Charles C. Johnson,weblink The Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2011, December 30, 2014, are the largest racial group of undergraduates in the system,NEWS, Asian-Americans blast UC admissions policy,weblink Associated Press, April 24, 2009, February 26, 2012, and make up more than a quarter of graduate and professional students.WEB,weblink Diversity: Annual Accountability Sub-Report, September 2010, University of California, December 30, 2014, February 26, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150226090809weblink">weblink dead, Asian Americans are more likely to attend college,BOOK, Whitewashing race: the myth of a color-blind society, Brown, Michael K., 2003, University of California Press, 978-0-520-23706-3, 121,weblink February 26, 2012, While Asian Americans are far more likely to attend college and are somewhat more likely to complete it, Asian American college graduates earn slightly less than whites., are more likely to apply to competitive colleges,WEB,weblink Who Applies (and Gets in), Scott, Jaschik, August 22, 2011, Inside Higher Ed, February 26, 2012, and have significantly higher college completion level than other races. 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.NEWS, 10 Surprising Statistics on the Political Leanings of Asian-American Voters, Doris Nhan,weblink National Journal, January 18, 2013, January 25, 2013,weblink" title="archive.today/20130216123217weblink">weblink February 16, 2013, dead, 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.NEWS, Bloomberg, Sunstein, Cass, 3 March 2015, Asian-Americans will soon be wealthiest Americans,weblink Chicago Tribune, 6 March 2015, These high education attainment statistics contribute to a stereotype of academic and vocational excellence for Asian Americans.WEB,weblink Why Asian Americans Are the Most Educated Group in America, Mekouar, Dora, 11 April 2016, All About America, Voice of America, 7 October 2018, 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.WEB,weblink What Really Happened to Diversity?, Christine, Hong, Catherine, Lee, Andrew, Leong, January 17, 2011, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley, February 26, 2012, NEWS, What Harvard Owes Its Top Asian-American Applicants, Stephen, Hsu,weblink San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2012, February 26, 2012, WEB,weblink Is it Bias? Is it Legal?, Scott, Jaschik, February 3, 2012, Inside Higher Ed, February 26, 2012, WEB,weblink Statistics on Reverse Discrimination, Don W., Joe, Asian-American Politics, February 26, 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120308152122weblink">weblink March 8, 2012, dead, Asian American test scores are also bimodal—Asians are over represented both at high scores and low scores.JOURNAL, Junn, Jane, Jane Junn, Masuoka, Natalie, 2008, Asian American Identity: Shared Racial Status and Political Context, Perspectives on Politics,weblink February 26, 2012, 10.1017/s1537592708081887, 6, 4, 729, 144081361, WEB,weblink The Need for Disaggregated and Cross-Tabulated Data in Higher Education Policymaking, Robert T., Teranishi, National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education, United States Department of Education, February 26, 2012, WEB,weblink These groups of Asian-Americans rarely attend college, but California is trying to change that, Krupnick, Matt, 21 May 2015, News Hour, The Public Broadcasting Service, 12 April 2018, REPORT, Mitchell Chang, Gordon Fung, Don Nakanishi, Rodney Ogawa, Katharya Um, Lois Takahashi, Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, Yen Ling Shek, Annie Kuo, Laura Russ, September 2012, The State of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Education in California,weblink University of California Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Multicampus Research Program, 7 October 2018, 13 December 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20181213234007weblink">weblink dead, A stereotype has been created that Asian Americans only study STEM and health-related fields at their universities (to become engineers, doctors, etc.).MAGAZINE, Williams, Joan C., Multhaup, Marina, Korn, Rachel, 31 January 2018, The Problem With 'Asians Are Good at Science',weblink The Atlantic, Washington, D.C., The Atlantic Monthly Group, 12 April 2018, JOURNAL, Weseley, Allyson J., Chai, Daniel, 2017, Is STEM running out of steam for Asian Americans? College admissions officers' perceptions of applicants, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 20, 1, 45–53, 10.1111/ajsp.12165, 151975259, But according to a report by the College Board, Asian Americans do have academic interest in fields like social science, humanities, and education.REPORT, Robert, Teranishi, John Kuo Wei, Tchen, Elizabeth R., OuYang, Helen, Zia, Karen, Yoshino, Laurie, Behringer, Tu Lien, Nguyen, Thuy Linh Nguyen, Tu, Stephen J., Handel, 2008, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, Not Fiction: Setting The Record Straight,weblink College Board, National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education, 12 April 2018, According to an opinion piece written in The Harvard Crimson, Asian Americans are "over-represented" in higher education in the United States, specifically at elite colleges.WEB,weblink Asian Americans Are Overrepresented At Elite Colleges, Coscetta, Michael T., 1 December 2006, The Crimson, 12 April 2018, This includes Harvard University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where over a fifth of undergraduates are Asian American.WEB,weblink The Numbers and the Arguments on Asian Admissions, Jaschik, Scott, 7 August 2017, Inside Higher Ed, Quad Partners, 12 April 2018, Similar increases in Asian American enrollment was found in the University of California system, especially in the late 20th century.JOURNAL, Lee, Sharon S., January 2008, The De-Minoritization of Asian Americans: A Historical Examination of the Representations of Asian Americans in Affirmative Action Admissions Policies at the University of California,weblink Asian American Law Journal, 15, 1, 129–152, 10.15779/Z388P3M, 12 April 2018, 4 September 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170904091032weblink">weblink dead, However, only a small number of institutions are presented, usually selective enrollment institutions, thus making it appear that Asian Americans make up a large part of a university's student population. Moreover, this discrimination brought upon Asian Americans in education has encouraged the model minority stereotype in American society.REPORT, Nathan, Joo, Richard V., Reeves, Edward, Rodrigue, 20 April 2016, Asian-American success and the pitfalls of generalization,weblink Brookings Institution, 12 April 2018, The high expectations placed on Asian American students often cause the problems faced by these students to be overlooked.MAGAZINE, 3 October 2015, The model minority is losing patience,weblink The Economist, London, 12 April 2018, WEB,weblink The Asian American College Student as Model Minority: The Myth, The Paradox and The Deception, Mooko, Daren R., 1995, The Vermont Connection, University of Vermont, 12 April 2018, MAGAZINE, Wong, Alia, 3 August 2017, The Thorny Relationship Between Asians and Affirmative Action,weblink The Atlantic, 12 April 2018, Issues related to social pressure and mental health are often overlooked due to the idea of the model minority.JOURNAL, Yeh, Theresa Ling, 16 April 2002, Asian American College Students Who Are Educationally at Risk, New Directions for Student Services, 2002, 97, 61–72, 10.1002/ss.39, Education is one of the main aspects that are given a high regard in the social expectations of Asian Americans.JOURNAL, Kiang, Lisa, Huynh, Virginia W., Charissa S. L., Cheah, Yijie, Wang, Hirokazu, Yoshikawa, 2017, Moving Beyond the Model Minority, Asian American Journal of Psychology, 8, 1, 1–6, 10.1037/aap0000070,

Income

{{Further|Income in the United States}}{{Col-begin}}{{Col-2}}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.US Census Bureau publication p 60–231 WEB,weblink Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2005, December 18, 2006, 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.WEB,weblink Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005, Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Cheryll Hill Lee, August 2006, United States Census Bureau, April 2, 2013, Additionally 28 percent of Asian American households had incomes exceeding 0,000, compared to 18 percent of the overall population.WEB,weblink State of the Asian American Consumer, 2012, The Nielsen Company, April 2, 2013, In 2006, Asian American households were slightly larger than other households, with fewer households with no earners.WEB,weblink Food-at-home expenditures of Asian households, Shiao-Lin Shirley Tsai, Lucilla Tan, June 2006, Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 2, 2013, 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, higher than the 8.6 percent rate for non-Hispanic whites.WEB,weblink Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008, 2009, United States Census Bureau, 9, 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.JOURNAL, Poverty among Asian Americans in the 21st Century, Isao, Takei, Arthur, Sakamoto, August 17, 2018, Sociological Perspectives, 54, 2, 251–276, 10.1525/sop.2011.54.2.251, 10.1525/sop.2011.54.2.251, 147015408, Much of this poverty is concentrated in ethnic enclaves, such as Chinatowns.weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080616082623weblink">Financing Affordable Housing: A Primer By Rick Liu, Sampan (archived from the original on June 16, 2008) {{Col-2}}(File:Race Income.png|thumb|Median household and personal income along racial lines.WEB,weblink Table PINC-03. Educational Attainment—People 25 Years Old and Over, by Total Money Earnings in 2005, Work Experience in 2005, Age, Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex., August 29, 2006, Annual Demographic Survey, U.S. Census, June 20, 2011, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070104105554weblink">weblink January 4, 2007, mdy, WEB,weblink Table HINC-06. Income Distribution to $250,000 or More for Households: 2005, August 29, 2006, Annual Demographic Survey, U.S. Census, June 20, 2011, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070104041530weblink">weblink January 4, 2007, mdy, ){| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; font-size:80%; margin-right:10px"|+ Household income distribution, by race/ethnicity, 2009Source: United States Census BureauHTTPS://WWW.CENSUS.GOV/COMPENDIA/STATAB/2012/TABLES/12S0690.PDF, Table 690. Money Income of Households—Percent Distribution by Income Level, Race, and Hispanic Origin, in Constant (2009) Dollars: 1990 to 2009, 2012, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, 22 October 2014, !Race/ethnic group!Type of income!$100k!rowspan=1|All AmericansHousehold income in the United States>Households13.0%11.9%11.1%14.1%18.1%11.5%20.1%!rowspan=1|European AmericansHousehold income in the United States>Households11.4%11.6%10.8%14.2%18.7%12.0%21.4%!rowspan=1|African AmericansHousehold income in the United States>Households23.5%15.4%13.4%14.5%15.1%8.7%9.3%!rowspan=1|Asian & Pacific IslandersHousehold income in the United States>Households11.7%7.9%8.2%11.1%16.9%11.8%32.4%!rowspan=1|Hispanic or LatinoHousehold income in the United States>Households16.5%15.2%14.3%15.4%17.6%9.1%11.7%{{Col-end}}In 2010, the median household income of Asian Americans had increased to $67,022.WEB,weblink Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: May 2012, March 21, 2012, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, April 2, 2013, As with educational achievement, economic prosperity is not uniform among all Asian American groups.WEB,weblink Asian American Immigration Status, Weingarten, Liza, Smith, Raymond Arthur, 2009, Majority Rule and Minority Rights Issue Briefs, Columbia University, March 4, 2012, In 2005 Census figures 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.BOOK,weblink New Directions in Diversity: A New Approach to Covering America's Multicultural Communities, George Padgett, Marion Street Press, 2006, 978-1-933338-04-0, 85, BOOK,weblink Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, September 2008, NYU Press, 978-0-8147-4064-4, 159, NEWS,weblink Black, Asian women with college degree outearn white women, Armas, Genaro C., 28 March 2018, Seattle Times, 10 October 2018, A white male with a college diploma earns far more than any similarly educated man or woman — in excess of $66,000 a year, according to the Census Bureau. Among men with bachelor’s degrees, Asians earned more than $52,000 a year, Hispanics earned $49,000 and blacks earned more than $45,000., However, by 2008, according to the College Board and United States Census Bureau, Asian American males with similar education achievement as their White American male counterparts earned more than their White American male counterparts (median AM = $71K, median WM = $66K). Asian American females also earned more than their White American female counterparts (median AF = $67K, median WF = $51K).REPORT,weblink Median Earnings by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Education Level, 2008, 2009, College Board, 31 October 2018, As of 2015, that trend continued.REPORT,weblink Education Pages 2016: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society, Jennifer Ma, Matea Pender, 2016, College Board, 21, Meredith Welch, 31 October 2018, WEB,weblink Racial, gender wage gaps persist in U.S. despite some progress, Pew Research Center, July 2016, en-US, 2019-05-04,

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.WEB,weblink Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010, Karen R. Hume, Nicholas A. Jones, Roberto R. Ramirez, March 2011, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, 31 May 2011, Table 8. The Asian Population and Largest Multiple-Race Combinations by Hispanic or Latino Origin for the United States:2010. Asian Alone or in Combination/Hispanic or Latino/598,146/100.0/(X),weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110602011039weblink">weblink 2 June 2011, live, WEB,weblink Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2000, U.S. Census Bureau, {{col-begin}}{{col-2}}

Asian American 2022 Population Estimates {| class"wikitable sortable"

! Ancestry !! Population estimate WEB,weblink Community Facts, | 213,372| 189,250| 300,360| 4,417,892| 4,506,308| 4,089,570| 320,164| 126,935| 782,772| 1,468,279| 262,229| 175,005| 526,956| 52,448| 213,774| 329,343| 2,162,610| 7,815| 673,674Total >| 22,408,464{{col-2}}

Ancestry By Country Region

{| class="wikitable sortable"! Ancestry !! Population2022WEB,weblink Asian American: American Community Survey (ACS) Reports, South Asian Americans>South Asians 6,268,769East Asian Americans>East Asians 6,258,943Southeast Asian Americans>Southeast Asians 7,780,461{{col-end}}{{col-begin}}{{col-3}}

Asian American alone {| class"wikitable sortable"

! Ancestry !! Population2000 !! Population2010 !! Percent changeBangladeshi Americans>Bangladeshi 46,905 142,080 202.9%Bhutanese Americans>Bhutanese 192 18,814 9,699.0%Burmese Americans>Burmese 14,620 95,536 553.5%Cambodian Americans>Cambodian 183,769 255,497 39.0%Chinese Americans>Chinese 2,564,190 3,535,382 37.9%Filipino Americans>Filipino 1,908,125 2,649,973 38.9%Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans>Hispanic 119,829 – –Hmong Americans>Hmong 174,712 252,323 44.4%Indian Americans>Indian 1,718,778 2,918,807 69.8%Indonesian American>Indonesian 44,186 63,383 69.7%Japanese Americans>Japanese 852,237 841,824 −1.2%Korean Americans>Korean 1,099,422 1,463,474 33.1%Laotian Americans>Laotian 179,103 209,646 17.1%Malaysian Americans>Malaysian 15,029 21,868 45.5%Maldivian Americans>Maldivian 29 102 251.7%Mongolian Americans>Mongolian 3,699 15,138 309.2%Nepalese Americans>Nepalese 8,209 57,209 596.9%Pakistani Americans>Pakistani 164,628 382,994 132.6%Ryukyuan Americans>Ryukyuan 6,138 5,681 −7.4%Singaporean Americans>Singaporean 2,017 4,569 126.5%Sri Lankan Americans>Sri Lankan 21,364 41,456 94.0%Taiwanese Americans>Taiwanese 118,827 199,387 67.6%Thai Americans>Thai 120,918 182,872 51.2%Vietnamese Americans>Vietnamese 1,169,672 1,632,717 39.6%| 46.3%Total >10,242,998 >14,674,252 >| 43.3%{{col-3}}

With multiracial identifiers {| class"wikitable sortable"

! Ancestry !! Population2000 !! Population2010 !! 2000–2010| 156.6%| 9,069.3%| 499.3%| 34.3%| 40.0%| 44.5%| -| 39.6%| 67.6%| 51.0%| 13.5%| 38.9%| 17.1%| 41.0%| 149.0%| 212.6%| 532.9%| 100.3%| 6.9%| 123.4%| 84.6%| 65.2%| 58.1%| 42.0%| 65.6%Total >11,898,828 >17,320,856 >| 45.6%{{col-3}}

Population estimate in 2017 with multiracial identifiers {| class"wikitable sortable"

! Ancestry !! Population estimateWEB,weblink B02018: Asian Alone or in Combination by Selected Groups, 2017, American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, United States Census Bureau, 28 February 2020,weblink 11 April 2019, dead, !! Margin of error +/-| 15,847| 5,803| 15,281| 18,408| 51,260| 48,784| –| 16,262| 46,189| 10,614| 32,467| 33,875| 18,833| 3,382| –| 4,509| 14,107| 25,230| 2,338| –| 5,818| 8,182| 14,214| 42,186| 2,260| 19,121Total >22,408,464 >| 43,477{{col-end}}

Language

According to the 2000 Census, the more prominent languages of the Asian American community include the Chinese languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Taishanese, and Hokkien), Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Gujarati.WEB,weblink Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: 2000: Census 2000 Brief, census.gov, August 17, 2018, In 2008, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese languages were all used in elections in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington state.weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080731133121weblink">EAC Issues Glossaries of Election Terms in Five Asian Languages Translations to Make Voting More Accessible to a Majority of Asian American Citizens. Election Assistance Commission. June 20, 2008. (archived from the original on July 31, 2008)In 2010, there were 2.8 million people (5 and older) who spoke a Chinese language at home; after the English and Spanish languages, it is the third most common language in the United States.WEB,weblink Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: May 2012, March 21, 2012, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, January 12, 2013, Other sizeable Asian languages are Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindi/Urdu, and Korean, with all four having more than 1 million speakers in the United States.{{Citation|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf|title=Table 53. Languages Spoken At Home by Language: 2011|work=Language use in the United States, August 2013|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=2016-02-19|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205101044weblink|archive-date=February 5, 2016|df=mdy-all}}WEB,weblink American FactFinder – Results, U.S. Census Bureau, dead,weblink" title="archive.today/20200212213140weblink">weblink February 12, 2020, mdy-all, August 16, 2017, 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. These include Tagalog, Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, Hindi and Bengali.NEWS, More Asian Immigrants Are Finding Ballots in Their Native Tongue, Timothy Pratt, Las Vegas,weblink New York Times, October 18, 2012, January 12, 2013, Election materials were also available in Gujarati, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, and Thai.NEWS, Five new Asian languages make their debut at the polls, Leslie Berestein Rojas,weblink KPCC, November 6, 2012, January 12, 2013, According to a 2013 poll conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, 48 percent of Asian Americans considered media in their native language as their primary news source.NEWS, Half of Asian Americans rely on ethnic media: poll, Shaun Tandon,weblink Agence France-Presse, January 17, 2013, January 25, 2013, {| class="wikitable sortable"! Language !! Population2016 !! Speak English"very well" !! Speak Englishless than "very well"Chinese language>Chinese 3,372,930 1,518,619 1,854,311Tagalog language>Tagalog 1,701,960 1,159,211 542,749Vietnamese language>Vietnamese 1,509,994 634,273 875,720Hindustani language>Hindustani 1,285,358 985,291 304,227Korean language>Korean 1,088,788 505,734 583,054Japanese language>Japanese 464,535 265,552 197,983Gujarati language>Gujarati 407,520 265,219 139,612Telugu language>Telugu 365,566 264,368 143,152Bengali language>Bengali 324,008 182,447 141,561Tai-Kadai languages>Tai-Kadai 307,442 152,210 155,212Punjabi language>Punjabi 287,491 168,743 118,748Tamil language>Tamil 273,332 221,997 51,355Hmong languages>Hmong 224,133 133,163 90,970Khmer language>Khmer 203,115 102,364 100,751Austronesian languages>Other Austronesian languages 467,718 291,405 176,313Indo-Aryan languages>Other Indic languages 409,631 244,847 164,784Dravidian languages>Other Dravidian languages 241,678 184,233 57,445Languages of Asia>Other languages of Asia 384,154 175,146 209,008

Religion

{{See also|Religion in the United States}}Asian American religious preferences are wide-ranging and tend to be more diverse than those other races in the United States.BOOK, Religion, race, and the American presidency, Espinosa, Gastón, 2008, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 978-0-7425-6321-6, 188,weblink registration, Religions Asian Americans., March 6, 2012, The growth of Asian American immigration since 1965 has contributed to this diversity.BOOK, The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History, Harvey, Paul, 2012, Columbia University Press, 978-0-231-14020-1, 330,weblink March 6, 2012, Until recently, a dearth of scholarship regarding Asian American religious beliefs led to a stereotype that Asian Americans are not religious or spiritual.BOOK, Asian American religions: the making and remaking of borders and boundaries, Carnes, Tony, Fenggang, Yang, 2004, New York University Press, 978-0-8147-1630-4, 3,weblink March 7, 2012, Although 59 percent of Asian Americans believe strongly in the existence of one or more gods, 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.BOOK, Religion in a free market: religious and non-religious Americans, who, what, why, where, Kosmin, Barry Alexander, Ariela, Keysar, 2006, Paramount Market Publishing, Ithaca, New York, 978-0-9766973-6-7, 241–242,weblink registration, Religions Asian Americans., March 6, 2012, No religious affiliation claims a majority of Asian Americans. The Trinity College American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) in 2008 found that of Asian Americans, 27% identified as none or agnostic, 21% identified with an Eastern religion, 17% identified as Catholic, 10% identified as generically Christian, 6% identified as mainline Protestant, 3% identified as Baptist, 2% identified as Penecostal or other Protestant, and 8% identified as Muslim.WEB,weblink American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS 2008), Barry A., Kosmin, Ariela, Keysar, March 2009, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, Trinity College, March 6, 2012, WEB,weblink Religion, Spirituality, and Faith, C.N., Le, 2012, Asian-Nation.org, March 6, 2012, A separate 2008 survey of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 17% of Asians identify as Catholic, 17% as evangelical Protestant, 14% as Hindu, 11% as secular, 3% as atheist, 4% as agnostic, and 5% as other unaffiliated.WEB,weblink U.S. Religious Landscape Survey: Religious Affiliation: Diverse and Dynamic, Luis, Lugo, Sandra Stencel, John Green, Gregory Smith, Dan Cox, Allison Pond, Tracy Miller, Elizabeth Podrebarac, Michelle Ralston, February 2008, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Pew Research Center, March 6, 2012, In 2012, a Pew Research Center survey of the Faiths of Asian Americans found that a plurality of Asian American respondents (42%) were Christian, followed by those who were unaffiliated (26%), Buddhist (14%), Hindu (10%), and Muslim (4%).WEB,weblink Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths, July 19, 2012, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Pew Research Center, August 12, 2012, July 16, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130716064702weblink">weblink dead, The 2008 Pew survey found that about a third of American Buddhists are Asian.WEB,weblink U.S. Religious Landscape Survey: Religious Affiliation, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, February 1, 2008, Both the 2008 ARIS survey and the 2008 Pew survey found that of all major U.S. demographics, Asian Americans had the highest number of respondents who did not claim a religion or refused to divulge their religious affiliation. 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.WEB,weblink Asian-Americans Lean Left Politically, Jeffrey M., Jones, February 3, 2010, Gallup, March 6, 2012, Filipino Americans are majority Catholic, and a significant minority of Vietnamese Americans are as well. Most Muslim Asian Americans come from, or trace their ancestry to, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan.THESIS, Master of Arts, Integration and Isolation: A Comparative Study of Immigrant Muslims in the United States and the United Kingdom,weblink Syed, Farhan A., 2006, University of Pennsylvania, May 19, 2011, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110720214954weblink">weblink July 20, 2011,

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 4.6 percent of African-Americans, 4 percent of Hispanic-Americans, 3.2 percent of Caucasian-Americans, and the overall 3.4 percent of American adults that self identify as LGBT in the total population.NEWS, Gallup study: 3.4 percent of US adults are LGBT, David Crary, Associated Press,weblink WTOP-FM, WTOP, October 18, 2012, October 23, 2012, WEB,weblink Special Report: 3.4% of U.S. Adults Identify as LGBT, Gary J. Gates, Frank Newport, October 18, 2012, Gallup, 17 March 2017, Nonwhites are more likely than white segments of the U.S. population to identify as LGBT. The survey results show that 4.6% of African-Americans identify as LGBT, along with 4.0% of Hispanics and 4.3% of Asians. The disproportionately higher representation of LGBT status among nonwhite population segments corresponds to the slightly below-average 3.2% of white Americans who identified as LGBT., In a Gallup survey conducted in 2017, 4.9 percent of Asian Americans identified as LGBT, representing the second-highest growth of LGBT representation among African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Caucasian Americans.WEB,weblink In U.S., Estimate of LGBT Population Rises to 4.5%, Inc, Gallup, 2018-05-22, Gallup.com, en-us, 2019-12-09,

U.S. states and territories {| class"wikitable sortable"

! State/Territory !!data-sort-type="number"|Asian AmericanPopulation(2010)WEB,weblink Total Population: Asian Alone or in combination with one or more other races, 2010 Census Summary File 2, United States Census Bureau, 4 May 2019,weblink 14 February 2020, dead, !!data-sort-type="number"|PercentageAsian American(2010) !!data-sort-type="number"|Asian AmericanPopulation(2020)WEB,weblink Race and Ethnicity in the United States, August 12, 2021, United States Census Bureau, August 17, 2021, !!data-sort-type="number"|PercentageAsian American(2020)Alabama}} 67,036 1.4 102,777 2.0Alaska}} 50,402 7.1 61,460 8.4American Samoa}} 1,994 3.6 - -Arizona}} 230,907 3.6 351,132 4.9Arkansas}} 44,943 1.5 68,568 2.6California}} 5,556,592 14.9 7,045,163 17.8Colorado}} 185,589 3.7 285,784 4.9Connecticut}} 157,088 4.4 205,693 5.7Delaware}} 33,701 3.8 50,969 5.1District of Columbia}} 26,857 4.5 45,465 6.6Florida}} 573,083 3.0 843,005 3.9Georgia (U.S. state)}} Georgia (U.S. state) >| 5.3Guam}} 51,381 32.2 - -Hawaii}} 780,968 57.4 824,143 56.6Idaho}} 29,698 1.9 47,513 2.6Illinois}} 668,694 5.2 875,488 6.8Indiana}} 126,750 2.0 212,649 3.1Iowa}} 64,512 2.1 96,861 3.0Kansas}} 83,930 2.9 112,195 3.8Kentucky}} 62,029 1.4 98,763 2.2Louisiana}} 84,335 1.9 111,836 2.4Maine}} 18,333 1.4 25,473 1.9Maryland}} 370,044 6.4 502,173 8.1Massachusetts}} 394,211 6.0 582,484 8.3Michigan}} 289,607 2.9 411,928 4.1Minnesota}}HTTP://WWW.CAPM.STATE.MN.US/PDF/2012APTOWNHALL.PDF >TITLE=2012 ASIAN PACIFIC TOWN HALL WORK=COUNCIL ON ASIAN PACIFIC MINNESOTANS ACCESS-DATE=SEPTEMBER 11, 2012, {{dead linkbot=InternetArchiveBot | 6.3Mississippi}} 32,560 1.1 44,931 1.5Missouri}} 123,571 2.1 179,336 2.9Montana}} 10,482 1.1 16,889 1.6Nebraska}} 40,561 2.2 69,006 3.5Nevada}} 242,916 9.0 353,593 11.4New Hampshire}} 34,522 2.6 46,861 3.4New Jersey}} 795,163 9.0 1,046,732 11.3New Mexico}} 40,456 2.0 55,997 2.6New York}} 1,579,494 8.2 2,173,719 10.8North Carolina}} 252,585 2.6 425,449 4.1North Dakota}} 9,193 1.4 18,675 2.4Northern Mariana Islands}} 26,908 49.9 - -Ohio}} 238,292 2.1 377,303 3.2Oklahoma}} 84,170 2.2 123,614 3.1Oregon}} 186,281 4.9 275,296 6.5Pennsylvania}} 402,587 3.2 603,726 4.6Puerto Rico}} 10,464 0.3 8,904 0.3Rhode Island}} 36,763 3.5 48,450 4.4South Carolina}} 75,674 1.6 123,666 2.4South Dakota}} 10,216 1.3 18,489 2.1Tennessee}} 113,398 1.8 178,683 2.6Texas}} 1,110,666 4.4 1,849,226 6.3Utah}} 77,748 2.8 125,088 3.8Vermont}} 10,463 1.7 16,182 2.5US Virgin Islands}} U.S. Virgin Islands >| -Virginia}} 522,199 6.5 757,282 8.8Washington}} 604,251 9.0 939,846 12.2West Virginia}} 16,465 0.9 22,281 1.2Wisconsin}} 151,513 2.7 216,345 3.7Wyoming}} 6,729 1.2 9,473 1.6{{flag>United States of America}} 17,320,856 5.6 24,000,998 7.2The 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

Origins of the Asian population (2010 Census) {| class"wikitable sortable"

! State/Territory !!data-sort-type="number"|ChineseWEB,weblink Total Population: Chinese alone or in any combination, 2010 Census Summary File 2, United States Census Bureau, 4 May 2019,weblink 14 February 2020, dead, !!data-sort-type="number"|FilipinoWEB,weblinkweblink" title="archive.today/20200212200818weblink">weblink dead, 12 February 2020, Total Population: Filipino alone or in any combination, 2010 Census Summary File 2, United States Census Bureau, 4 May 2019, !!data-sort-type="number"|IndianWEB,weblink Total Population: Asian Indian alone or in any combination, 2010 Census Summary File 2, United States Census Bureau, 4 May 2019,weblink 14 February 2020, dead, !!data-sort-type="number"|JapaneseWEB,weblink Total Population: Japanese alone or in any combination, 2010 Census Summary File 2, United States Census Bureau, 4 May 2019,weblink 14 February 2020, dead, !!data-sort-type="number"|KoreanWEB,weblink Total Population: Korean alone or in any combination, 2010 Census Summary File 2, United States Census Bureau, 4 May 2019,weblink 14 February 2020, dead, !!data-sort-type="number"|VietnameseWEB,weblink Total Population: Vietnamese alone or in any combination, 2010 Census Summary File 2, United States Census Bureau, 4 May 2019,weblink 14 February 2020, dead, !!data-sort-type="number"|Other AsianAlabama}} 11,154 8,224 14,951 4,336 10,624 8,488 9,259Alaska}} 3,726 25,424 1,911 3,926 6,542 1,446 7,427American Samoa}} 440 1,217 3 11 217 34 72Arizona}} 42,331 53,067 40,510 19,611 21,125 27,872 26,391Arkansas}} 6,301 6,396 7,973 2,384 3,247 6,302 12,340California}} 1,451,537 1,474,707 590,445 428,014 505,225 647,589 459,075Colorado}} 33,344 26,242 24,135 22,714 28,177 23,933 27,044Connecticut}} 36,483 16,402 50,806 6,203 11,760 10,804 24,630Delaware}} 7,033 4,637 12,344 1,196 3,099 1,688 3,704District of Columbia}} 6,583 3,670 6,417 2,010 2,990 1,856 3,331Florida}} 94,244 122,691 151,438 25,747 35,629 65,772 77,562Georgia (U.S. state)}} Georgia (U.S. state) >| 52,880Guam}} 2,617 41,944 — 2,368 3,437 337 678Hawaii}} 199,751 342,095 4,737 312,292 48,699 13,266 139,872Idaho}} 5,473 6,211 2,786 5,698 2,806 2,154 4,570Illinois}} 119,308 139,090 203,669 28,623 70,263 29,101 78,640Indiana}} 26,038 16,988 30,947 8,437 13,685 8,175 22,480Iowa}} 11,494 6,026 12,525 2,854 7,375 9,543 14,695Kansas}} 13,448 9,399 15,644 4,178 7,756 16,074 17,431Kentucky}} 10,512 8,402 14,253 6,197 7,264 5,813 9,588Louisiana}} 11,953 10,243 13,147 3,117 4,752 30,202 10,921Maine}} 4,390 2,918 2,397 1,181 1,741 2,170 3,536Maryland}} 79,660 56,909 88,709 12,826 55,051 26,605 50,284Massachusetts}} 136,866 18,673 85,441 15,358 28,904 47,636 61,343Michigan}} 51,525 32,324 84,750 17,412 30,292 19,456 53,848Minnesota}} 30,047 15,660 38,097 7,995 20,995 27,086 107,252Mississippi}} 5,333 5,638 6,458 807 2,301 7,721 4,302Missouri}} 26,001 17,706 26,263 7,084 12,689 16,530 17,298Montana}} 1,919 2,829 930 1,854 1,369 481 1,100Nebraska}} 5,730 4,900 6,708 3,106 3,815 8,677 7,625Nevada}} 39,448 123,891 14,290 21,364 18,518 12,366 13,039New Hampshire}} 7,652 3,369 9,075 1,842 3,021 2,907 6,686New Jersey}} 149,356 126,793 311,310 19,710 100,334 23,535 64,125New Mexico}} 7,668 8,535 5,727 4,889 3,760 5,403 4,474New York}} 615,932 126,129 368,767 51,781 153,609 34,510 228,763North Carolina}} 40,820 29,314 63,852 12,878 25,420 30,665 49,636North Dakota}} 1,762 1,704 1,740 628 933 791 1,635Northern Mariana Islands}} 3,659 19,017 — 795 2,253 — 1,184Ohio}} 50,870 27,661 71,211 16,995 21,207 15,639 34,706Oklahoma}} 11,658 10,850 14,078 5,580 9,072 18,098 14,834Oregon}} 41,374 29,101 20,200 24,535 20,395 29,485 21,191Pennsylvania}} 96,606 33,021 113,389 12,699 47,429 44,605 54,838Puerto Rico}} 2,751 445 5,475 313 205 232 1,043Rhode Island}} 8,228 4,117 5,645 1,455 2,658 1,615 13,045South Carolina}} 11,706 15,228 17,961 4,745 7,162 7,840 11,032South Dakota}} 1,570 1,864 1,433 696 1,179 1,002 2,472Tennessee}} 18,313 14,409 26,619 6,955 13,245 11,351 22,506Texas}} 182,477 137,713 269,327 37,715 85,332 227,968 170,134Utah}} 16,358 10,657 7,598 12,782 7,888 9,338 13,127Vermont}} 2,833 1,035 1,723 842 1,271 1,206 1,553US Virgin Islands}} U.S. Virgin Islands >| 1,457Virginia}} 72,585 90,493 114,471 20,138 82,006 59,984 82,522Washington}} 120,814 137,083 68,978 67,597 80,049 75,843 53,887West Virginia}} 3,208 3,059 3,969 1,159 1,571 1,104 2,395Wisconsin}} 21,054 13,158 25,998 5,967 10,949 6,191 68,196Wyoming}} 1,340 1,657 739 982 803 283 925{{flag>United States of America}} 4,010,114 3,416,840 3,183,063 1,304,286 1,706,822 1,737,433 1,962,298Chinese Americans figures include Taiwanese Americans; Data for the territories (except Puerto Rico) is from American FactFinder's 2010 United States Census datweblink {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200214010627weblink |date=2020-02-14 }} American FactFinder. Ethnic Origin Or Race; 2010 American Samoa Summary File. Retrieved November 9, 2018weblink {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200214010417weblink |date=2020-02-14 }} American FactFinder. Ethnic Origin Or Race; 2010 Guam Summary File. Retrieved November 9, 2018weblink {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200214010347weblink |date=2020-02-14 }} American FactFinder. Ethnic Origin Or Race; 2010 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Summary File. Retrieved November 9, 2018weblink {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200212211956weblink |date=2020-02-12 }} American FactFinder. Race; 2010 U.S. Virgin Islands Summary File. Retrieved November 9, 2018.

See also

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

References

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Notes

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External links

• Asian-Nation Asian American Socioeconomic Statistics and Comparisons
• WEB,weblink Demographics of Asian Americans, 4 April 2013, Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends, Pew Research Center,

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