Asians are fastest growing racial group
Census Tracts with 4% or more Asian in Arapahoe County See more maps at coequitycompass.org
Asian American groups change between 2015 and 2019 from Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) estimates.
The Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities continue to grow steadily, the 2020 census data showed. In Colorado, the counties that have the highest percent of Asians are: Broomfield at 9%, Arapahoe at 8.4%, and Douglas at 7.6%. There is a also relatively large Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (NHPI) population in Northeast Denver due to the increase in migration of Pacific Islanders, many from Micronesia, that work at Denver International Airport. The data released in July, revealed almost 20 million people in the United States identified as “Asian,” and another 4 million checked boxes as “Asian” combined with another race group, for a total of 7.2 percent of the population. Another 0.5 percent of the population identifies as “Native Hawaiian” and “Other Pacific Islander” alone or in combination with another race group. Asian Americans in Colorado by County Larimer
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The results make the Asian population the fastest growing racial group in the United States at 35.5 percent. In addition to the uptick, the Asian population has become geographically diverse with wide variations in income, citizenship status and political preference. In 1990, the country’s Asian population numbered 6.6 million and was largely concentrated in a few pockets in cities on the coasts. Thirty years later, those enclaves have grown significantly, and the Asian population is more spread out, with families building lives in the suburbs of the South and in rural areas of the Midwest. Nearly 60 percent of all people of Asian descent, including those who are mixed race, were born outside the United States, and a majority are naturalized citizens. A vast majority of Asians in the United States are citizens, either naturalized or U.S.-born.
Pacific Islanders in Colorado by County
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Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander groups change between 2015 and 2019 from Census Bureau ACS estimates.
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Census Tracts with 4% or more Asian
