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Originally Posted by park123

This goes to show you how much of an outlier metro LA is in terms of Indian population. It's per capita on par with Miami, which is famous for having very few Asians in general.

Don't know where RST500 is getting his numbers from, but these are the numbers from the Census' ACS (2013-2017)* by CSA. Greater LA's 2.7x the size of South Florida and still more Indian percentage-wise. If it was the same per capita, the population would be 28% less than what it is.

*in combination with other groups and races

NYC: 759,779
Bay Area: 401,270
Chicago: 225,353
DC: 215,881
LA: 207,383
Dallas: 161,189
Houston: 137,170
Philadelphia: 132,205
Atlanta: 122,751
Boston: 119,324
Miami: 58,643


2018 CSA estimates:

NYC: 22,679,948
Bay Area: 9,666,055
Chicago: 9,866,910
DC: 9,778,360
LA: 18,764,814
Dallas: 7,957,493
Houston: 7,197,883
Philadelphia: 7,204,035
Atlanta: 6,775,511
Boston: 8,285,407
Miami: 6,913,262


% Indian:

NYC: 3.4%
Bay Area: 4.2%
Chicago: 2.3%
DC: 2.2%
LA: 1.1%
Dallas: 2%
Houston: 1.9%
Philadelphia: 1.8%
Atlanta: 1.8%
Boston: 1.4%
Miami: 0.8%