Posted on: Thursday, May 2, 2002
THE LEFT LANE
Asian chart toppers
| • | Hawa'i Census 2000 |
By Tanya Bricking
Advertiser Staff Writer
Nearly 12 million Americans reported in the Census 2000 that they were at least part Asian, and in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which began yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau has highlighted Hawai'i as the state with the highest percentage of Asians in the country. Here, 58 percent of those who answered the census survey reported they were of Asian heritage. California was next, with 12 percent.
Honolulu led the nation in cities of 100,000 or more residents with the highest percentage of Asians, with 68 percent. Among cities of that size, the only other that had more than one-half of its population reporting as Asian was Daly City, Calif. (54 percent). All of the remaining cities among the 10 with the highest percentage of Asians in their population were in California: Fremont, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, Irvine, Garden Grove, Santa Clara, Torrance and San Jose.
