Asians in Washington, NOT Seattle area...where is #2? (Spokane, Tacoma: living in, stats)

[Tiger Beer]

Outside of the Seattle area, where would be the next city with a large Asian population?

[KAILANI]

Honolulu?? San Fransisco??
Or do you mean within Washington state?

[scirocco22]

Aside from King (including Seattle and its suburbs), Pierce (including Tacoma and its suburbs), and Snohomish (Everett and its suburbs) Counties, I'm guessing that Clark, Thurston and Kitsap counties would be next in shear numbers. So, Vancouver in Clark county, Olympia/Lacey areas in Thurston county and Bremerton and Bainbridge Island in Kitsap County.

[j_k_k]

All cities of any size (40K and up) in Washington have Asian communities, and some small towns have what might be called enclaves--generally assimilated, on their third generation, and generally Japanese American in background. Washington's Asian communities are embedded in the state's character, and it is a rare longtime Washingtonian who is surprised to meet an Asian person in any walk of life--from governor to Walmart greeter. And BC's Asian population is even proportionately greater. From Pink Mountain to Osoyoos, if one for some reason had an issue with staying in an Asian-owned motel, one would sleep in one's car a lot.

So, in answer to your question, #2 is really the rest of Washington: first the Puget Sound outskirts, but also Van, Spokane, even Tri-Cities and Crackima.

[scirocco22]

I'm going to disagree with j_k_k. Spokane, Yakima, and the Tri-Cities have relatively small --I'll go as far to say extremely small Asian populations both percentage-wise or by number compared to the locations I mentioned previously.

I'm also going to say the Washington's third generation Japanese-American population do not live in enclaves. When mentioning especially the Japanese-Americans, they are fully assimilated and now can be found anywhere in the state not living in any specific enclave

So to more directly answer your question, one would have to define what you mean by "Seattle area." If that includes the suburbs of Seattle or Tacoma and Everett, then my previous answer still stands. Again, either by numbers or percentages, I don't believe any of the cities on the east side of the Cascades can come close.

[MichaelinWA]

Asians have been part of those communities for generations, but I think you're right - in percentage terms, the numbers are small. In Vancouver (WA) also. Washington is right up there nationally in terms of Asian population, but it's definitely concentrated in the Seattle-Tacoma area.

Originally Posted by scirocco22

I'm going to disagree with j_k_k. Spokane, Yakima, and the Tri-Cities have relatively small --I'll go as far to say extremely small Asian populations both percentage-wise or by number compared to the locations I mentioned previously.

[mikec34]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Outside of the Seattle area, where would be the next city with a large Asian population?

Here ya go man:
State and County QuickFacts

Washington QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

And if city is not on the drop-down list, just choose other on the DD list, GO, and enter name of CITY. This will give you more speficic values than the normal HTML view (it comes out as a pdf).

eg, bellevue:
http://censtats.census.gov/data/WA/1605305210.pdf

[mikec34]

Originally Posted by j_k_k

All cities of any size (40K and up) in Washington have Asian communities, and some small towns have what might be called enclaves--generally assimilated, on their third generation, and generally Japanese American in background. Washington's Asian communities are embedded in the state's character, and it is a rare longtime Washingtonian who is surprised to meet an Asian person in any walk of life--from governor to Walmart greeter. And BC's Asian population is even proportionately greater. From Pink Mountain to Osoyoos, if one for some reason had an issue with staying in an Asian-owned motel, one would sleep in one's car a lot.

So, in answer to your question, #2 is really the rest of Washington: first the Puget Sound outskirts, but also Van, Spokane, even Tri-Cities and Crackima.

What cities in Washington have more Japanese than Chinese? Most of the minority Asians in most of the towns are Chinese or a group other than Japanese.

Vancouver (main is chinese/vietnamese):
http://censtats.census.gov/data/WA/1605374060.pdf

Seattle (main is chinese):
http://censtats.census.gov/data/WA/1605363000.pdf

Tacoma(main is vietnamese/korean):
http://censtats.census.gov/data/WA/1605370000.pdf



Yakima(main is filipino):
http://censtats.census.gov/data/WA/1605380010.pdf


Spokane(japanese/vietnamese):
http://censtats.census.gov/data/WA/1605367000.pdf


Olympia(ivetnamese):
http://censtats.census.gov/data/WA/1605351300.pdf



Not many japanese at all compared tot he others as I can see.....

[scirocco22]

Thanks for the breakdown, Mike. I was going to do that when I had the chance but my time is very limited nowadays.

The stats you've reported are from the 2000 census so I have to believe they've shifted somewhat but it still gives a pretty good idea of the distribution.

[j_k_k]

Originally Posted by scirocco22

I'm going to disagree with j_k_k. Spokane, Yakima, and the Tri-Cities have relatively small --I'll go as far to say extremely small Asian populations both percentage-wise or by number compared to the locations I mentioned previously.

I'm also going to say the Washington's third generation Japanese-American population do not live in enclaves. When mentioning specially the Japanese-Americans, they are fully assimilated and now can be found anywhere in the state not living in any specific enclave

So to more directly answer your question, one would have to define what you mean by "Seattle area." If that includes the suburbs of Seattle or Tacoma and Everett, then my previous answer still stands. Again, either by numbers or percentages, I don't believe any of the cities on the east side of the Cascades can come close.

Then let's substitute 'clusters' for 'enclaves'; I wasn't writing with precision. It's not that they're not part of mainstream life.

I guess the description of the proportion is a matter of perspective, but over here I seem to run into plenty of Asians, drive by Asian churches, and so on. Not as many Asian people as Hispanic, of course, and not as great a percentage as Seattle.