Asian Americans were the fastest-growing race or ethnicity group in California over the last decade. The number of Californians who identify as Asian when asked about their race or origin grew by 25% to now constitute 17% of state residents.
But within the diverse group of people who identify as Asian, growth rates differed substantially by country of origin, with some subgroups doubling and even tripling, and a few others declining. The detailed data comes from recently released ethnicity data from the 2020 Census.
The fastest-growing subgroup among Asian Americans was the Nepalese population, which more than tripled between 2010 and 2020, growing from 6,200 to nearly 20,000 over the last decade.
Changes in California’s Asian populations from 2010 to 2020
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Chinese does not include Taiwanese. Data includes people who self-identify with an ethnic group, either alone or in combination with other groups.
Nami Sumida / The Chronicle · Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Singaporeans are the next fastest-growing Asian ethnicity (+139%), followed by the Mongolian (+105%) and Bangladeshi (+76%) populations. These populations include people who self-identify with an ethnicity, either alone or in combination with other Asian or non-Asian ethnicities.
Many of the fast-growing groups, however, are fairly small. Nepalese, Singaporean and Mongolian residents combined make up just 0.5% of Asian Americans in the state.
But even among larger Asian groups, the growth rates are significant. Chinese Americans, the largest Asian group…
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