The country’s Asian American population grew faster than any other ethnic group

The country’s Asian American population grew faster than any other ethnic group over the past decade, and in few places can that explosion be seen more vividly than in San Francisco’s nearest neighbor – Daly City.

The hilly enclave of 101,123 people has a population that is 58.4 percent of Asian descent, according to U.S. census figures released Wednesday. That gives it the highest Asian concentration of any large U.S. city outside of Hawaii.

This comes as little surprise to anyone who has strolled downtown, where the savory scent of lumpia and chicken adobo fills the air. Daly City was also the most Asian mainland city in the 2000 census at 54 percent – and then, as now, the main reason is the Filipino populace.

People of Filipino descent constitute 33.3 percent of Daly City’s population, up from 31.6 percent in the 2000 census.

Nationwide, people who reported they were of Asian ethnicity grew by 46 percent, from 11.9 million in 2000 to 17.3 million in 2010. That means Asians now constitute 5.6 percent of the U.S. population.

Of that total, 46 percent live in the Western United States, with California claiming the biggest Asian population.

In the Golden State, the Asian American population grew 33.7 percent from 2000, faster than any other ethnic group. Asians now constitute 14.9 percent of the state’s populace, at 5.6 million people, according to the new census numbers.

What? Did we really need Jeremy Lin to show the world that there are Asians in the US?

via sfgate.com