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In 2007 Houston had 16,000 Asian American businesses. A 2006 U.S. Census Bureau report stated that the annual revenues of those businesses totaled to $5.5 billion ($8312644437.11 in today's money). [18] By 2010 the number of Asian-Americans in Greater Houston was over 417,000. [19]
Within the city of Houston, that year there were 18,453 ethnic Vietnamese, with 84% of them being born outside of the United States. [4] As of 1990 the Vietnamese, along with the Chinese, were one of the two largest Asian immigrant groups to Houston, [10] with 15,568 Vietnamese living there. [11]
Mayor of Houston Annise Parker stated that the growing Asian population of Houston made this flight an important one. [23] In 2004 China Airlines started a flight from Houston to Taipei stopping in Seattle, making it the first Asian carrier to fly to Houston. [24] The airline stated that many Taiwanese companies had offices in Houston. [25]
Immigration also propelled the expansion of the Asian population, which was the fastest-growing race or ethnic group last year in the U.S., while births outpacing deaths helped propel growth in ...
Texas has a Chinese American population. As of the 2010 U.S. census, it is 0.6% Chinese with over 150,000 living there. Many live in Plano, Houston, and Sugar Land.. After May 1869, a group of Chinese workers in the Western United States began moving to Texas, as there was a demand for labor in the post-American Civil War environment. [1]
Today, given relatively low rates of births and immigration, Japanese Americans are only the sixth-largest Asian American group. In 2000, there were between 800,000 and 1.2 million Japanese Americans (depending on whether multi-ethnic responses are included).
This area has gone through gentrification in the early 1990s to 2010s, causing what was left of Asian businesses to fade. [3] Since the 1990s, Asian developers began settling in Southwest Houston an area heavily affected by the 1980s oil glut. Vietnamese businesses have dominated the area along Bellaire Boulevard west of Beltway 8.
The following list of ethnic groups is a partial list of United States cities and towns in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Asian American or Asian, according to the United States Census Bureau. This list does not include cities in which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, merely a plurality (as opposed to a majority) of the ...