![]() Distribution of Asian Americans by county according to the 2020 census | |
Total population | |
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Alone (one race)![]() ![]() In combination (multiracial) ![]() ![]() Alone or in combination ![]() ![]() Chinese Americans: 5,143,982 Indian Americans: 4,506,308 Filipino Americans: 4,089,570 Vietnamese Americans: 2,162,610 Korean Americans: 1,894,131 Japanese Americans: 1,542,195 Pakistani Americans: 526,956 Thai Americans: 329,343 Hmong Americans: 320,164 Cambodian Americans: 300,360 Laotian Americans: 262,229 Taiwanese Americans: 213,774 Bangladeshi Americans: 213,372 Burmese Americans: 189,250 Nepalese Americans: 175,005 Indonesian Americans: 116,869 Sri Lankan Americans: 61,416 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Suburban and urban areas along the West and East Coast, and in the South, Midwest, and Southwest; Hawaii and the Pacific territories | |
California | 7,045,163 |
New York | 2,173,719 |
Texas | 1,849,226 |
New Jersey | 1,046,732 |
Washington | 939,846 |
Illinois | 875,488 |
Florida | 843,005 |
Hawaii | 824,143 |
Virginia | 757,282 |
Pennsylvania | 603,726 |
Massachusetts | 582,484 |
Languages | |
Religion | |
Christian (42%) Unaffiliated (26%) Buddhist (14%) Hindu (10%) Muslim (6%) Sikh (1%) Other (1%) including Jain, Zoroastrian, Tengrism, Shinto, and Chinese folk religion (Taoist and Confucian), Vietnamese folk religion[2] |
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).[3] Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peoples of the continent of Asia, the usage of the term "Asian" by the United States Census Bureau only includes people with origins or ancestry from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent[4] and excludes people with ethnic origins in certain parts of Asia, including West Asia who are now categorized as Middle Eastern Americans.[5][6] Furthermore, Central Asians are not mentioned in any census racial category.[7] The "Asian" census category includes people who indicate their race(s) on the census as "Asian" or reported entries such as "Chinese, Indian, Bangladeshi, Filipino, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Pakistani, Malaysian, and Other Asian".[8] In 2020, Americans who identified as Asian alone (19,886,049) or in combination with other races (4,114,949) made up 7.2% of the U.S. population.[9]
Chinese, Indian, and Filipino Americans make up the largest share of the Asian American population with 5 million, 4.3 million, and 4 million people respectively. These numbers equal 23%, 20%, and 18% of the total Asian American population, or 1.5%, 1.2%, and 1.2% of the total U.S. population.[10]
Although migrants from Asia have been in parts of the contemporary United States since the 17th century, large-scale immigration did not begin until the mid-19th century. Nativist immigration laws during the 1880s–1920s excluded various Asian groups, eventually prohibiting almost all Asian immigration to the continental United States. After immigration laws were reformed during the 1940s–1960s, abolishing national origins quotas, Asian immigration increased rapidly. Analyses of the 2010 census have shown that, by percentage change, Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the United States.[11]
Christian 42%, Buddhist 14%, Hindu 10%, Muslim 6%, Sikh 1%, Jain *% Unaffiliated 26%, Don't know/Refused 1%
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