Eleven counties lost population, with most of them in the sparsely populated region near the Oregon border that has been devastated by wildfires in recent years.
Nine counties had double-digit percentage population growth, led by Trinity County in Northern California with Riverside County in Southern California had the largest gain in total population, adding more than , residents.
The state Legislature now has 14 Asian Pacific Islanders, a number that will grow to 15 once a special election is held to fill an Alameda County vacancy in the state Assembly, according to Alex Vassar, an unofficial legislative historian at the California State Library. The rise in influence has coincided with a rise in hate crimes against Asians. The most events were recorded in March and April of , when the coronavirus pandemic was taking hold in the state. Others are the product of immigration, of people making the choice to come here.
All of these are complexities that really require some better attention. Wyoming has 4, Asian Americans, making it the state with the smallest population of the demographic.
West Virginia has the smallest relative population of Asian Americans, with a total of 14, making up only 0. Hover over Click on a tile for details. Here are the 10 states with the largest Asian population: California 6,, New York 1,, Texas 1,, New Jersey , Washington , Illinois , Hawaii , Florida , Virginia , Massachusetts , Highest Rate.
Asian American Population by State. Show Source. About a third of U. Nearly two-thirds of U. Most Asian immigrants, by contrast, speak a language other than English at home.
Asians who are immigrants are slightly more likely than U. Asians have a lower homeownership rate than the U.
Immigrant Asians were slightly more likely than U. Among the entire U. On the whole, Asian Americans do well on measures of economic well-being compared with the overall U. Foreign-born Asian households earned slightly more than those headed by U. These overall figures hide differences among Asian origin groups, however. All told, 12 Asian origin groups had higher median household incomes than the median among all Americans.
Poverty rates among U. Again, there are large differences in poverty rates among Asian subgroups. Most of the Asian origin groups analyzed 12 of 19 had poverty rates that were as high as or higher than the U. Similar shares of U. Both figures are substantially higher than the share of all U.
Much like economic trends within the U. Asian population, there are wide disparities among origin groups. Indians ages 25 and older have the highest level of educational attainment among U. The Asian population , or the number of individuals choosing one or more Asian races, is The shares reporting specific Asian origin groups have been corrected to reflect the shares of the Asian population, rather than the shares of the Asian responses.
No other findings in the report and fact sheets have been affected by these changes. Note: This is an update of a post originally published Sept. Read full methodology here. Fresh data delivered Saturday mornings. It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values. Even in a polarized era, the survey reveals deep divisions in both partisan coalitions. Pew Research Center now uses as the last birth year for Millennials in our work.
President Michael Dimock explains why. The vast majority of U.
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