Total population | |
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1,338,219 0.4% of the total U.S. population (2010) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
California, Hawaii, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Guam, American Samoa, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Florida and Washington | |
Languages | |
American English, Carolinian, Chamorro, Fijian, Hawaiian, Marshallese, Samoan, Tongan, Polynesian languages, others | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Australians, New Zealanders, Pacific Islanders |
Oceanian Americans or Oceanic Americans are Americans whose ancestors came from Oceania, a region which is composed of the Australian continent and the Pacific Islands.
There are basically two Oceanian American groups, that well represent the racial and cultural population of Oceania: Euro-Oceanian Americans ( Australian Americans and New Zealand Americans) and the indigenous peoples of Oceania in the United States or Pacific Islander Americans (Chamorro Americans, Samoan Americans, etc.) Most of the Euro-Oceanians are descended from the European settlers in Oceania; while Pacific Islanders are of indigenous Oceanian descent. [1]
Oceanian Americans in the 2000 [2] and 2010 U.S. censuses: [3]
Ancestry | 2000 | 2000 % of Oceanian American population | 2010 | 2010 % of Oceanian American population |
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Pacific Islander American (except Australia and New Zealand) | 874,414 | 90.18% | 1,225,195 | 91.55% |
Australian American | 78,544 | 8.10% | 93,063 | 6.95% |
New Zealand American | 16,628 | 1.71% | 19,961 | 1.49% |
TOTAL | 969,586 | 100.0% | 1,338,219 | 100.0% |