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Asian Americans makeup 11.7% of Los Angeles’ population. [1]There are more Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Taiwanese, Cambodian, Thai, Indonesian, Sri Lankan, and Burmese Americans living in Los Angeles County than all other counties in the United States of America.
If Latinos were excluded from the racial categories and treated as if they were a separate group, Los Angeles County's 2019 population would be 48.6% Latino, 25.9% White Non-Hispanic, 7.7% Black or African American, 14.5% Asian, 0.2% Native American and Alaskan Native, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.4% Other Race, and 2.4% from two or more races.
From 2000 to 2010 the Asian population in Los Angeles County increased by 20%. [16] Within Los Angeles County, as of 2010 13 cities and places are majority Asian. As of that year, the City of Los Angeles had the highest numeric Asian population, with slightly fewer than 500,000.
San Diego is home to more than 147,000 Filipinos, accounting for 36% of the population of Asians in the county. Within Los Angeles County, Long Beach and Carson are home to more than 40,000 Filipinos.
Of the nineteen places in California with the largest percentages of Asians, thirteen were in Los Angeles County, all but two very small places had a population of at least 7,000, and all but three had a population of at least 10,000.
Metropolitan areas with the highest population of Asian Americans (greater than 250,000 people)(2010 Census) [46] 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
The following is a list of places in the United States with a population fewer than 100,000 in which at least three percent (five percent in Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay areas) of the total population is Chinese, according to the 2010-2015 American Community Survey, and the 2010 U.S. Census for the U.S. territories.
Cambodian and Southeast Asian-dominant street gangs such as the Asian Boyz, which is an off-shoot of the African American and Los Angeles based Crips gang, formed in Los Angeles County the late 1970s to the 1980s during the Cambodian refuge migration to the US, especially in Long Beach, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland, St. Paul, Minnesota, and ...