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The largest number of Vietnamese outside Vietnam is in Orange County, California (184,153, or 6.1 percent of the county's population), [13] followed by Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties; the three counties accounted for 26 percent of the Vietnamese immigrant population in the United States. [12]
City with the most Vietnamese Americans in the United States and outside of Vietnam. 2: Garden Grove, California: 52,894: 30.3: Part of Little Saigon in Orange County, California: 3: Houston, Texas: 38,619: 1.7: Little Saigon in Houston is located in Midtown and growing population in Chinatown. 4: San Diego, California: 37,606: 2.7: Little ...
In 2010, there were 2.8 million people (5 and older) who spoke a Chinese language at home; [97] after the English and Spanish languages, it is the third most common language in the United States. [97] Other sizeable Asian languages are Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindi/Urdu, and Korean, with all four having more than 1 million speakers in the United ...
Under United States law ... Compared to their population base, Asian Americans today are well represented ... Vietnamese 70.0% 26.3% Total US population 83.9% ...
Those who fled to escape the North Vietnamese takeover are generally antagonistic toward the communist government of Vietnam. [88] In the United States, Vietnamese immigrants have achieved high levels of education. In 2015, 30% of Vietnamese Americans had attained a bachelor's degree or higher (compared to 19% for the general population).
2011 US Census Bureau, American Community Survey; The community originally started emerging in Westminster, and quickly spread to the adjacent city of Garden Grove.Today, these two cities rank as the highest concentration of Vietnamese-Americans of any cities in the United States at 37.1% and 31.1%, respectively (according to the 2011 American Community Survey).
The newspaper helped to bring news from the homeland to the refugee community, and helped them prepare for a new life in the United States. [9] In 1980, Vietnamese had 200,000 speakers and was the 14th-most spoken language in the US. From 1980 to 2010, Vietnamese was the fastest-growing language in the United States, having increased sevenfold ...
California possesses the largest Thai population outside of Asia, and is the only state in the country that has a designated "Thai Town," which is also the first of its kind globally. Of the 5.6 million Asian people in California, approximately 68,000 are Thai, which is 28.5% of the entire Thai population in the United States. [14]