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Washington: Asians
are the fastest growing race group in the United States with
Indians (3.2 million) making up the third largest Asian group
after the Chinese (four million) and Filipinos (3.4 million).
Reflecting a surge in immigration from the entire region over a
decade, those who identified themselves as Asian alone, and not
mixed race, grew by 43.3 percent, according to the US Census
Bureau.
That was more than four times faster than the rate of growth for
the overall US population, which grew 9.7 percent in the same
period to 308,745,538, a census bureau official told reporters in
a conference call Wednesday.
Some 14.7 million people, or 4.8 percent of the total population,
identified themselves as Asian alone. Another 2.6 million, or 0.9
percent, said they were Asian in combination with another race
group, most commonly white.
Among the Asian alone population that only reported one detailed
Asian group, the order of the second and third largest groups
switched-the Asian Indian (2.8 million) group was the second
largest, followed by Filipino (2.6 million). The Chinese alone
population remained the largest.
Large proportions of Chinese (49 percent), Vietnamese (49 percent)
and Koreans (44 percent) lived in the West. A much lower
proportion of Asian Indians (25 percent) also lived in the West.
Among all detailed Asian groups, the Asian Indian population was
the largest in 23 states, of which 13 were in the South, six in
the Midwest and four in the Northeast.
The Asian Indian population was also the largest detailed Asian
group in six of the 20 metro areas (Chicago, Washington,
Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Detroit).
California is home to America's largest proportion of all major
Asian groups, including Asian Indians, with 5.6 million, or almost
a third of all those included in the 2010 census nationwide, the
report showed,.
The state's Asian population increased 34 percent during the
decade, but was outpaced by Nevada (116 percent), Arizona (95
percent) and North Carolina (85 percent).
New York had the biggest Asian population with 1.1 million,
followed by Los Angeles (484,000) and San Jose, California
(327,000).
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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