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1.2 million Filipino Americans live in the Greater Los Angeles area. [35] Los Angeles has the largest Thai population outside of Thailand. [36] Los Angeles is home to the second-largest Muslim population in the United States, after New York City, as well as one of the largest populations of Romani Americans in the United States. [37]
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2022 American Community Survey show Los Angeles County's shifting demographics.
If Latinos were excluded from the racial categories and treated as if they were a separate group, Los Angeles County's 2023 population would be 48.6% Latino, 24.5% White Non-Hispanic, 7.3% Black or African American, 15.1% Asian, 0.2% Native American and Alaskan Native, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.6% Other Race, and 3.5% from two or more races.
As estimated by the Public Policy Institute of California in 2008, Los Angeles County was home to more than one-third of California's undocumented immigrants, who made up more than ten percent of the population. [47] Los Angeles County is home to the largest Armenian population outside of Armenia. [48]
Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County at its center, and Orange County to the southeast.
Nearly 31% of Los Angeles itself is of Mexican descent, having the largest Mexican population of any city in the United States. 12,392 Belizeans also live in California. [ 82 ] In Mariposa County , there is a very small community of Californios or Spanish American people as they identify themselves, that dates back before the US annexation of ...
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
These were the ten cities or neighborhoods in Los Angeles County with the largest percentage of Latino residents, according to the 2000 census: [1] East Los Angeles, California , 96.7% Maywood, California , 96.4%