Data from the 2010 Census shows that the number of people who identified themselves as Asian alone, and not mixed race, grew by 43.3 per cent from a decade earlier.
That was more than four times faster than the rate of growth for the overall U.S. population, which grew 9.7 per cent in the same period to 308,745,538.
A growing group: Some 14.7 million people- the equivalent of 4.8 per cent of the total U.S. population- identified themselves as Asian alone and not mixed race.
Some 14.7 million people- the equivalent of 4.8 per cent of the country’s total population- identified themselves as Asian alone.
Another 2.6 million, or 0.9 per cent, said they were Asian in combination with another race group, most commonly white.
‘Net international migration is the biggest component of the change in the Asian population,’ said Elizabeth Hoeffel, a Census Bureau spokesman.
For statistical purposes, the United States defines an Asian as someone ‘having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent.’
Different regions: Though New York (previous picture) and California (like San Francisco above) continue to have large Asian populations, other states have seen growth as well.
Those who identified themselves as either Asian alone or Asian mixed with another race grew by at least 30 per cent in all states except Hawaii, where they already made up a majority of the population.
States with the fastest rate of Asian growth were Nevada (116 per cent), Arizona (95 per cent) and North Carolina (85 per cent).
New York had the biggest Asian population with 1.1 million, followed by Los Angeles (484,000) and San Jose, California (327,000).
Chinese was the largest of all Asian groups (four million, including 700,000 who identified as mixed race), followed by Filipinos (3.4 million) and Asian Indians (3.2 million).
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