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The largest group in the Inland Empire is Filipino (93,000). 517,000 Filipinos in Greater L.A. |
BTW I am using this site as a quick reference, since the American Factfinder is a bit of work to do.
https://statisticalatlas.com/United-States/Overview |
^^^ Very cool link. Thanks.
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I don't have data on this, but it seems like Asian Americans in L.A. likely live in a surrounding environment that's every bit as Asian as (suburban) Bay Area Asians do. They're just a smaller population of the overall area as there are wider swaths with little Asian representation, while Asians are pretty much everywhere in the Bay Area.
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Where Asians live in Greater LA is one thing, but you do see Asians pretty much everywhere while going out and about just like you do in the Bay Area... Asians do, after all, commute to work, go shopping in other areas, go to the beach, and like to hang out in other areas just like everyone else does---including other ethnicities. Which is why it surprises me when some people say that they don't think that LA is all that diverse. |
I dont think that figure is taking into account San Jose and the South Bay.
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For whatever reason, they're just not as discussed on these kinds of forums like Koreans, Chinese, Mexicans, Cubans etc. I don't know why, but something I've noticed. LA's Filipino population is very dispersed through the city and metro. Which is interesting. I don't think there's a central Filipino neighborhood, as far as I know. |
I live and grew up in the NY Area, and also lived in LA for a short time. I'll definitely second the comment that LA's Asian community seemed unusual to me in having very few South Asians. I'm not saying there weren't any, but much much less than what I noticed in NY/NJ and the Bay Area. I've been to Artesia's Little India, and to the Little Bangladesh in the middle of Koreatown which has no Bangladeshis. Outside of a few blocks in Artesia, there was a very limited South Asian presence.
LA did seem like it had a very robust Chinese population. the SGV is probably the most impressive suburban Asian area I've ever seen in North America. |
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When I was a very small child in the 1970s, Filipino businesses/bakeries/markets tended to be grouped along North Vermont Avenue, kind of near LACC/the Braille Institute. I'm not sure if it's still that way, I'm rarely in that part of town anymore. Eagle Rock also has a large Filipino population. I've heard of Filipinos in Reseda and Panorama City in the San Fernando Valley too. Outside LA proper, Glendale, Carson, Cerritos, West Covina, Walnut, Diamond Bar, Rowland Heights... all have significant Filipino populations. Socio-economically, they've all become very diverse, too. When I was in high school in Cerritos back in the 1980s, all the Filipino parents (mine included) seemed to be either nurses, doctors, accountants, or real estate agents. |
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And I recently ate at a restaurant on Venice Blvd. that specializes in cuisine from Kerala. I'm telling, you, Indians, Indians, Indians! :P |
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Again, it's not that there are no Indians in LA. It's just that there are a lot fewer than in NY and the Bay Area. The only significant retail area that I'm aware of is Pioneer Blvd in Artesia. That's actually a pretty impressive Indian street, to the point where I wonder how they can even maintain it with a small South Asian population. But outside of Pioneer Blvd I haven't seen anything other than a random shop here or there. And I didn't see a lot of South Asians compared to other groups. In fact very few. Contrast that with the South Bay (in the Bay Area) where Indians are one of the main population groups, or with NY and NJ where they rival East Asians in numbers. |
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Daly City (2018 est. pop. 107,008) was 33.2% Filipino at the 2010 Census, and the 2017 estimate (most recent) shows the city at 32% Filipino and 57.4% Asian overall. Daly City is where Filipinos have achieved a critical mass, but far more Filipinos live scattered around the rest of the Bay Area.
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Went to the Factfinder, ACS 2017 (5-year estimates). Added Riverside MSA to LA and Bridgeport MSA to NY and put San Francisco and Silicon Valley together. I included Taiwaese with Chinese.
Asian American total Los Angeles 2,775,457 New York 2,487,423 Bay Area 2,124,796 Chinese New York 860,766 Bay Area 764,488 Los Angeles 718,794 Indian New York 714,036 Bay Area 369,706 Los Angeles 193,288 Filipino Los Angeles 636,217 Bay Area 427,112 New York 247,836 Vietnamese Los Angeles 370,378 Bay Area 222,597 New York 43,174 Korean Los Angeles 368,079 New York 222,328 Bay Area 92,416 Japanese Los Angeles 195,418 Bay Area 115,502 New York 67,087 |
Here is South Asians. Only really significantly changes the numbers in New York where there are large Bangladeshi and Pakistani populations.
South Asian New York 923,895 Bay Area 400,687 Los Angeles 237,087 |
Some more MSAs, Asian groups with at least 50,000.
Atlanta Indian 119,078 Chinese 55,201 Korean 50,400 Boston Chinese 159,555 Indian 86,821 Chicago Indian 224,964 Filipino 140,736 Chinese 129,730 Korean 62,331 Dallas Indian 160,660 Vietnamese 93,171 Chinese 72,111 Houston Indian 136,840 Vietnamese 133,081 Chinese 103,735 Filipino 62,917 Philadelphia Indian 121,371 Chinese 96,186 San Diego Filipino 199,627 Chinese 81,117 Vietnamese 58,039 Seattle Chinese 137,233 Filipino 112,348 Indian 93,609 Korean 71,137 Vietnamese 70,598 Japanese 58,395 Washington Indian 170,543 Chinese 134,485 Korean 97,766 Filipino 88,345 Vietnamese 73,128 |
List seems to exclude some nations in Asia
"Asia" goes al the way west to Turkey, and includes everything east of the Caucasus/Ural Mountains in a geographic sense. Yet the list of "Asians" seems to exclude groups like Iranians (many 100s of thousands in L.A. area), Arabs, Israelis, Siberians etc. How does the Census Bureau define "Asian"? In the geographic meaning, as a person from Asia? Both Iran and India are in Asia, yet the list includes Indians but doesn't include Iranians, or many other nationalities that are also Asian and have significant numbers of immigrants in the U.S.
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This means that if you are a Pashtun from Pakistan, you are Asian, but if you are a Pashtun from Afghanistan, you are white. |
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