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There is also a large Asian population in Monterey Park, South San Gabriel, and Montebello. [5] Between 2010 and 2020, the population of Asian American residents in the city grew by 8.2%. [6] There are around 930,000 Asian Americans and 7,700 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander immigrants living in Los Angeles County. [7]
California has the largest Asian American population in the United States, and second highest proportion of Asian American residents, after Hawaii. As of the 2020 US census, there were over 6 million Asian Americans in California; 15.5% of the state's population. [3] If including those with partial Asian ancestry, this figure is around 17%.
Los Angeles was economically booming after World War II and presenting an American dream for Asian immigrants rooted in Southern California suburbanization. Mass migration to the area from other ...
The Asian-American influx into the southwestern portion of the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, grew rapidly when Chinese immigrants began settling in Monterey Park in the 1970s. Just east of the city of Los Angeles, the region has achieved international prominence as a hub of overseas Chinese, or hua qiao.
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). [37]
Mexican Americans have been one of the largest ethnic groups in Los Angeles since the 1910 census, [clarification needed] as Mexican immigrants and U.S.-born Mexicans from the Southwest states came to the booming industrial economy of the LA area between 1915 and 1960, the Mexican-American or Chicano population was estimated at 815,000 by 1970.
In the state’s 47th Congressional District, for example, an area that has repeatedly swung between parties over the past decade, Asian Americans make up a quarter of the population.
Among Korean Americans born in Korea, the Los Angeles metropolitan area had 226,000 as of 2012; Greater New York (including Northern New Jersey) was home to 153,000 Korean-born Korean Americans; and metropolitan Washington, D.C., with 60,000. [6]