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In 2013, they made up 11.5 percent of the Vietnamese American population, and in majority, identified itself as Vietnamese. [77] Some Hoa Vietnamese Americans also speak a dialect of Yue Chinese, generally code-switching between Cantonese and Vietnamese to speak to both Hoa immigrants from Vietnam and ethnic Vietnamese.
Adding in the 4.1 million respondents who identified as Asian in combination with another race group, the Asian American population comprised 24 million people (7.2% of the total population). [ 8 ] The overall population is highly urbanized [ 9 ] and is concentrated in the West Coast of the United States and New York metropolitan area . [ 6 ]
In the 2022 American Community Survey, the following figures regarding detailed Asian ethnicities are reported. [4] The NRCC Asian American income is better understood when household size and cost of living is factored as many Asian American groups have larger households and disproportionally live in metropolitan areas where the cost of living ...
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data, a publisher of demographic data on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, said that from 1996 to 2022, 45% of Californians who voted did so by mail. Among Asian ...
Most Asian Americans [5] historically lived in the Western United States. [11] [12] The Hispanic and Asian population of the United States has rapidly increased in the late 20th and 21st centuries, and the African American percentage of the U.S. population is slowly increasing as well since reaching a low point of less than ten percent in 1930. [5]
In a report from 2022, the Asian American Disinformation Table said that Asians in the U.S. represent a voting bloc that has a sizable influence over election outcomes in swing states.
This was almost triple the 2000 census' estimate of a population of 1.2 million Arab Americans, based on the "Ancestry" question rather than the racial category question. [45] That number may have been an under count however, as 19% of the American population provided no answer for the "Ancestry" question. [45]