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There is also a large Asian population in Monterey Park, South San Gabriel, and Montebello. [5] Between 2010 and 2020, the population of Asian American residents in the city grew by 8.2%. [6] There are around 930,000 Asian Americans and 7,700 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander immigrants living in Los Angeles County. [7]
These were the ten neighborhoods in Los Angeles County with the largest percentage of Asian residents, according to the 2000 census: [1] Chinatown , 70.6% Monterey Park , 61.1%
The Los Angeles Times analyzed 40 years of data from the census, charting the growth of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across Los Angeles County.
Asian-American ethnoburbs can be found in the South Bay, Los Angeles, and San Fernando Valley, and may include South Asians. These include Sawtelle (West Los Angeles), San Pedro (due to its proximity to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach), and Pasadena, though Pasadena's historic Japantowns are no longer hubs of the Japanese American communities.
Cambodian and Southeast Asian-dominant street gangs such as the Asian Boyz, which is an off-shoot of the African American and Los Angeles based Crips gang, formed in Los Angeles County the late 1970s to the 1980s during the Cambodian refuge migration to the US, especially in Long Beach, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland, St. Paul, Minnesota, and ...
For decades, the history of Southeast Asian refugees have been sidelined in U.S. history. California's first state-legislated Southeast Asian model curriculum aims to change that.
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From 2000 to 2010 the Asian population in Los Angeles County increased by 20%. [16] Within Los Angeles County, as of 2010 13 cities and places are majority Asian. As of that year, the City of Los Angeles had the highest numeric Asian population, with slightly fewer than 500,000.