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Vietnamese-Americans immigrated to the United States in different waves. The first wave of Vietnamese from just before or after the Fall of Saigon/the last day of the Vietnam War, April 30, 1975. They consisted of mostly educated, white collar public servants, senior military officers, and upper and middle class Vietnamese and their families.
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 Vietnamese American population grew significantly after 1975, when a large wave of South Vietnamese refugees arrived in the U.S. following the end of the Vietnam War. [8] Today, over half of Vietnamese-Americans reside in California and Texas, particularly in metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, Houston, and San Jose. [9] [10]
South Asians are among Los Angeles County’s fastest growing ethnic groups including Bangladeshi (122%), Pakistani (59%), Sri Lankan (45%), and Indian (29%). [2] Asians are concentrated in the San Gabriel Valley. [3] The Asian American population in San Gabriel Valley grew by 22% between 2000 and 2010. [4]
There are around 50,000 Roma living in the Los Angeles area, making it one of the cities with the highest Roma concentration in the U.S. [31] More than 1.2 million Los Angeles residents are of Mexican ancestry. Mexican influences can be seen in the city’s culture. [32] Mexican Americans are the largest ethnic group in Los Angeles.
The Catholic dioceses of Orange, Los Angeles and San Jose have the largest Catholic diaspora of Vietnamese Catholics in world outside of Vietnam, estimated to be about 250,000-300,000 Catholics out of a total Vietnamese California population of 1.3 Million.
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 ...
Metropolitan areas with the highest population of Asian Americans (greater than 250,000 people)(2010 Census) [46] Metropolitan area Total % of total population Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA Metro Area: 1,884,669 14.7% New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area: 1,878,261 9.9% San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area