Asian Population Demographics | Largest Asian Growth

Several items in this section ...
1. Examining Linguistic Isolation by Block Group
• Asian & Pacific Islander languages spoken at home ACS 2010/11 block group demographics
• interactive ranking table and GIS visual analysis; http://proximityone.com/language_spoken.htm

2. Interactive Tables to Examine Asian Population in Context of Other Demographics
• http://proximityone.com/rankingtables.htm

3. 2011 Demographic Updates -- tables (xls) from Annual Social and Economic Supplement to Current Population Survey

Table 1. Population by Sex and Age, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2011
Table 2. Marital Status of the Population 15 Years and Over by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2011
Table 3. Educational Attainment of the Population 25 Years and Over by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2011
Table 4. Nativity and Citizenship Status by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2011
Table 5. Year of Entry of the Foreign-Born Population by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2011
Table 6. Households by Type, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic Households: 2011
Table 7. Households by Type and Size, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic Households: 2011
Table 8. Labor Force and Employment Status of the Civilian Population 16 Years and Over by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2011
Table 9. Occupation of the Civilian Employed Population 16 Years and Over by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2011
Table 10. Earnings of Full-Time, Year-Round Workers 15 Years and Over by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2010
Table 11. Earnings of Full-Time, Year-Round Workers 15 Years and Over by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2010 [XLS - 36K] [CSV - 4K] Table 12. Total Money Income of Households by Type, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic Households: 2010
Table 13. Poverty Status of the Population by Sex and Age, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2010
Table 14. Housing Tenure by Household Type, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic Households: 2011
Table 15. Housing Tenure by Family Type, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic Families: 2011
Table 16. Regional Distribution of the Population by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic : 2011
Table 17. Race and Hispanic Origin Distribution of the Population by Sex and Region: 2011
Table 18. Generational Distribution of the Population by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2011
Table 19. Race and Hispanic Origin Distribution of the Population by Sex and Generation: 2011
Table 20. Mobility Status of the Population One Year and Older by Sex, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2010-2011
Table 21. Health Insurance Status by Sex and Age, for Asian Alone and White Alone, Not Hispanic: 2011

4. Census 2010 Summary File 2
Use the Census 2010 Summary File 2 (http://proximityone.com/cen2010_sf2.htm) interactive ranking table to explore/analyze the Demographic Profile 1 subject matter for the U.S. by state and county for selected race groups. Race groups include Asian alone, Asian Indian alone, Chinese alone, Japanese alone, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, Native Hawaiian alone Native Hawaiian alone and in combination with one or more other races, among others.

Examine what population pyramids can tell us about specific race group populations by area.
Population by 5-year age group on Y-axis with male (blue, left) and female (light red, right) on x-axis.

Census 2010 U.S. Asian Alone Population Pyramid

Census 2010 U.S. Asian Indian Alone Population Pyramid

More about population pyramids ... Start using Age-Gender Chart Graphics

	Census 2000		Census 2010		Change 2000-10
Race	Population	Percent	Population	Percent	Population	Percent
Total population	281,421,906	100.0	308,745,538	100.0	27,323,632	9.71
One Race	274,595,678	97.6	299,736,465	97.1	25,140,787	9.16
White	211,460,626	75.1	223,553,265	72.4	12,092,639	5.72
Black or African American	34,658,190	12.3	38,929,319	12.6	4,271,129	12.32
American Indian and Alaska Native	2,475,956	0.9	2,932,248	0.9	456,292	18.43
Asian	10,242,998	3.6	14,674,252	4.8	4,431,254	43.26
Asian Indian	1,678,765	0.6	2,843,391	0.9	1,164,626	69.37
Chinese	2,432,585	0.9	3,347,229	1.1	914,644	37.60
Filipino	1,850,314	0.7	2,555,923	0.8	705,609	38.13
Japanese	796,700	0.3	763,325	0.2	-33,375	-4.19
Korean	1,076,872	0.4	1,423,784	0.5	346,912	32.21
Vietnamese	1,122,528	0.4	1,548,449	0.5	425,921	37.94
Other Asian	1,285,234	0.5	2,192,151	0.7	906,917	70.56
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	398,835	0.1	540,013	0.2	141,178	35.40
Native Hawaiian	140,652	0.0	156,146	0.1	15,494	11.02
Guamanian or Chamorro	58,240	0.0	88,310	0.0	30,070	51.63
Samoan	91,029	0.0	109,637	0.0	18,608	20.44
Other Pacific Islander	108,914	0.0	185,920	0.1	77,006	70.70
Some Other Race	15,359,073	5.5	19,107,368	6.2	3,748,295	24.40
Two or More Races	6,826,228	2.4	9,009,073	2.9	3,748,295	24.40

•	The respondent is instructed to check any of the Asian boxes if this person has origins of any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. This includes "Asian Indian," "Chinese," "Filipino," "Korean," "Japanese," "Vietnamese," and "Other Asian."
•	"Asian Indian" box if this person indicates their race as "Asian Indian" or identifies themselves as Bengalese, Bharat, Dravidian, East Indian, or Goanese.
•	"Chinese" box if this person indicates their race as "Chinese" or identifies themselves as Cantonese, or Chinese American. In some census tabulations, written entries of Taiwanese are included with Chinese while in others they are shown separately.
•	"Filipino" box if this person indicates their race as "Filipino" or who reports entries such as Philipino, Philipine, or Filipino American.
•	"Japanese" box if this person indicates their race as "Japanese" or who reports entries such as Nipponese or Japanese American.
•	"Korean" box if this person indicates their race as "Korean" or who provides a response of Korean American.
•	"Vietnamese" box if this person indicates their race as "Vietnamese" or who provides a response of Vietnamese American.
•	"Other Asian" box if this person provides a write-in response of an Asian group, such as Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Burmese, Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, Indochinese, Indonesian, Iwo Jiman, Madagascar, Malaysian, Maldivian, Nepalese, Okinawan, Pakistani, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Thai, or Other Asian, not specified.

012 Asian alone (400-499)
013 Asian Indian alone (400-401)
014 Bangladeshi alone (402)
072 Bhutanese alone (403)
073 Burmese alone (404)
015 Cambodian alone (405-409)
016 Chinese alone (410-419)
017 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone (410-411)
018 Taiwanese alone (412-419)
019 Filipino alone (420-421)
020 Hmong alone (422)
021 Indonesian alone (423-429)
022 Japanese alone (430-439)
023 Korean alone (440-441)
024 Laotian alone (442)
025 Malaysian alone (443)
075 Mongolian alone (465)
076 Nepalese alone (472)
077 Okinawan alone (444)
026 Pakistani alone (445)
078 Singaporean alone (473)
027 Sri Lankan alone (446)
028 Thai alone (447-449)
029 Vietnamese alone (450-459)
031 Asian alone or in combination with one or more other races (400-499) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
032 Asian Indian alone or in any combination (400-401) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
033 Bangladeshi alone or in any combination (402) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
080 Bhutanese alone or in any combination (403) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
081 Burmese alone or in any combination (404) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
034 Cambodian alone or in any combination (405-409) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
035 Chinese alone or in any combination (410-419) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
036 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone or in any combination (410-411) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
037 Taiwanese alone or in any combination (412-419) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
038 Filipino alone or in any combination (420-421) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
039 Hmong alone or in any combination (422) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
040 Indonesian alone or in any combination (423-429) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
041 Japanese alone or in any combination (430-439) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
042 Korean alone or in any combination (440-441) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
043 Laotian alone or in any combination (442) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
044 Malaysian alone or in any combination (443) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
082 Maldivian alone or in any combination (471) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
083 Mongolian alone or in any combination (465) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
084 Nepalese alone or in any combination (472) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
085 Okinawan alone or in any combination (444) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
045 Pakistani alone or in any combination (445) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
086 Singaporean alone or in any combination (473) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
046 Sri Lankan alone or in any combination (446) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
047 Thai alone or in any combination (447-449) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)
048 Vietnamese alone or in any combination (450-459) & (100-299) or (300, A01-Z99) or (400-999)