Metro Areas With Largest Asian Population
According to the 2000 U.S. census, Asian Americans make up 4.3% of the total U.S. population — that’s about 12 million people who identify themselves as at least part Asian. However, this number represents an increase of 63% from the 1990 census, making Asian Americans the fastest growing of all the major racial/ethnic groups in the U.S., in terms of percentage growth. But in so many ways, the presence of Asian Americans is much more prominent than even these numbers suggest.
Read more: http://www.asian-nation.org/population.shtml#ixzz0ZlzbY8CjData from the 1997-1998 State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, published by the Census Bureau, show that almost 66% of all Asian Americans live in just five states: California (12.1% of the state population), New York (5.6%), Hawai’i (63.6%), Texas (2.9%), and Illinois (3.4%). Amazingly, 54.7% of all Asian Americans live in just the six metropolitan areas below:
| Metropolitan Area | Asian American Popul. | % of Total Population |
| Los Angeles | 1,799,000 | 11.4% |
| New York | 1,343,000 | 6.7% |
| San Francisco | 1,279,000 | 18.8% |
| Honolulu | 566,000 | 64.9% |
| Washington DC-Baltimore | 373,000 | 5.1% |
| Chicago | 367,000 | 4.2% |
Read more: http://www.asian-nation.org/population.shtml#ixzz0ZluDM0HX
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