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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.
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. The city with the highest percentage of Asians was Monterey Park , which was 68% Asian.
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.
Bergen County, host to the county's highly ranked Academies magnet public high school [8] [9] [10] as well as to the North American headquarters operations of South Korean chaebols including Samsung, [11] LG Corp, [12] and Hanjin Shipping, [13] was home to all of the nation's top 10 municipalities by percentage of Korean population. [14]
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 ...
Map of racial distribution in Los Angeles, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, or Other (yellow) The 1990 United States Census and 2000 United States Census found that non-Hispanic whites were becoming a minority in Los Angeles; estimates for the 2010 United States Census results found Latinos to be approximately half (47–49%) of the city's population ...
Member organizations of the newly formed Asian American Initiative, whose groups cater to the county's Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese populations, among others, have held voter information and ...