Total population | |
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378,672 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Enterprise, Spring Valley, Summerlin South, Whitney, Fallon Station, NV, Paradise, Henderson, Reno, North Las Vegas, Las Vegas [1] | |
Languages | |
English • Tagalog • Chinese • Vietnamese • Korean • Japanese | |
Religion | |
Christianity • Buddhism • Hinduism • Islam |
Asian Americans are a fast growing ethnic group in the US state of Nevada. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, Asian Americans were 9.1% of the state's population, [2] or 378,672 people.
Filipinos are the largest Asian ethnic group in the state. [3] In Clark County, the four largest Asian groups are Filipino (52%), Chinese (12%), and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and Indian (both 7%). [4] The largest Asian ethnic groups in Nevada are Filipino (168,200), Chinese (53,234), Japanese (28,366), Vietnamese (21,719), Korean (17,743), and Indian (14,602). [5]
As of 2022, Asians make up about 10 percent of Nevada's eligible voters, comprising a larger share compared to any state except Hawaii and California. [6]
Ancestry by origin [7] | Number | % |
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Filipino | 178,160 | |
Japanese | 34,133 | |
Koreans | 24,576 | |
Chinese | 70,458 | |
Vietnamese | 19,199 | |
Thai | 7,607 | |
Laotian | 3,995 | |
Cambodian | 2,107 | |
Indian | 16,569 | |
Pakistani | 2,390 | |
Taiwanese | 3,400 | |
Indonesian | 1,216 | |
Mongolian | 517 |