List of U.S. communities with Asian-American majority populations

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The following list of ethnic groups is a partial list of United States cities and towns in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Asian American or Asian, according to the United States Census Bureau. This list does not include cities in which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, merely a plurality (as opposed to a majority) of the residents are Asian American. The list below is organized by state or territory and, within each state or territory, by population size. The percentage of each city's population that is Asian American is listed in parentheses next to the city's name.

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There are 51 communities in four states and two territories with Asian-American majority populations.

Cities with the highest percentage of Asian-Americans

Top Ten cities with 100,000 or more total population and the highest percentages of Asian-Americans, alone or with other races [1]
CityTotal Population
(2010)		Asian-American, alone or with other racesAsian-American, aloneMixed-race Asian-American
RankPercentage of total populationRankPercentage of
total population		RankPercentage of
total population
Honolulu, HI 337,256168.2254.8113.4
Daly City, CA 101,123258.4155.6212.8
Fremont, CA 214,089354.5350.653.9
Sunnyvale, CA 140,081443.7440.9192.8
Irvine, CA 212,375543.3539.244.1
Santa Clara, CA 116,468640.8637.7113.2
Garden Grove, CA 170,883738.6737.1751.4
Torrance, CA 145,438838.2834.563.6
San Francisco, CA 805,235935.8933.3252.6
San Jose, CA 945,9421034.51032.0272.5
Ten cities with 100,000 or more total population and the highest percentage "Asian in combination" (mixed with other races) [1]
CityTotal
population
(2010)		Asian-American, alone or mixed with other racesAsian-American, aloneMixed-race Asian-American
RankPercent of
total population		RankPercent of
total population		RankPercent of
total population
Honolulu, HI 337,256168.2254.8113.4
Elk Grove, CA 153,0151130.61226.324.3
Fairfield, CA 105,3212619.03214.934.1
Irvine, CA 212,375543.3539.244.1
Fremont, CA 214,089354.5350.653.9
Torrance, CA 145,438838.2834.563.6
Berkeley, CA 112,5802122.82219.373.6
Vallejo, CA 115,9421328.31524.983.3
Enterprise, NV 108,4812024.52021.293.3
Hayward, CA 144,1861725.21822.0103.2

Cities with the highest number of Asian-Americans

Ten cities with 100,000 or more total population
and the highest number of Asian-Americans [1]
CityTotal
population
(2010)		Asian-American,
alone or mixed with other races		Asian-American,
alone		Mixed-race Asian-American
RankNumberRankNumberRankNumber
New York, NY 8,175,13311,134,91911,038,388196,531
Los Angeles, CA 3,792,6212483,5852426,959256,626
San Jose, CA 945,9423326,6273303,138523,489
San Francisco, CA 805,2354288,5294267,915620,614
San Diego, CA 1,307,4025241,2935207,944433,349
Honolulu, HI 337,2566230,0716184,950345,121
Chicago, IL 2,695,5987166,7707147,164719,606
Houston, TX 2,099,4518139,9608126,378913,582
Fremont, CA 214,0899116,7559108,332228,423
Philadelphia, PA 1,526,00610106,7201096,4051410,315

Cities and census-designated places with Asian alone, Non-Hispanic majority populations

Following are cities with Asian alone, non-Hispanic majority populations

California

Population over 100,000

Population between 25,000 and 99,999

Population less than 25,000

★Asian-American majority as of the 2020 Census

Guam

Population less than 25,000

Hawaii

Population over 100,000

Population between 25,000 and 99,999

Population less than 25,000

New Jersey

Population over 100,000

Population between 25,000 and 99,000

Population less than 25,000

★Asian-American majority as of the 2020 Census

New York

Population less than 25,000

Northern Mariana Islands

Population between 25,000 and 100,000

Pennsylvania

Population less than 25,000

Virginia

Population less than 25,000

★New jurisdiction first appearing in the 2020 Census

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References

  1. 1 2 3 The Asian Population: 2010 (PDF) (Report). U.S. Census Bureau. Table 7.
  2. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau. American FactFinder - 2010 summary file [Geography set to "Tamuning village, Guam"]. URL unavailable.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 U.S. Census Bureau. American FactFinder. 2010 summary file [Geography set to "Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands"]. URL unavailable.
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