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I've met a few Filipinos in the DC area here in the VA suburbs. My cousin is married to one. She like brought her whole family or her family brought here and hasn't looked back. Which is interesting because usually people are so homesick but my cousin is like nope my whole family is here no need to go back.
The Bay Area has a huge population. I live in a small city about 75,000 and we have numerous Filipino resturants such as Gerry's and Jolibee's. I could probably name more than a dozen resturants here in my city.
Outside the West Coast, New York has somewhere around 220K Filipinos.
LOL what?? Where did you get that figure? NYC has around 60,000 Filipinos and its metro has about 166,000, primarily in New Jersey. But that's also including parts of PA and CT.
The Bay Area has a huge population. I live in a small city about 75,000 and we have numerous Filipino resturants such as Gerry's and Jolibee's. I could probably name more than a dozen resturants here in my city.
Yup, its only second to LA in numbers. And Daly City has the highest concentration of Filipinos of any mid-sized city in North America (35.4% with a population of 103,621). I could probably name off about 20 Filipino restaurants in Daly City/SSF not even counting all there are in SF. And that's not even looking at all the other cities here that are heavily populated by Filipinos like SF, Union City, Vallejo, Hayward, Milpitas, San Jose, San Mateo, etc. They have a huge presence here in the Bay.
Hawaii and California. As far as CA goes, we have the largest number of Filipinos in the country. The LA area has the most in raw numbers, whereas the Bay Area has the second most, as well as the second largest total percentage that's Filipino, behind Hawaii.
California Filipino populations by metro area, 2007:
LA area:
1. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 304,349 (2% of the population)
9. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 42,893 (1%)
19. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA 15,366 (2%)
Bay Area:
2. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 199,857 (5% of the population)
7. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 76,563 (4%)
11. Vallejo-Fairfield, CA 33,829 (8%)
San Diego:
5. San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA 115,530 (4%)
Central Valley:
13. Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA 29,601 (1%)
17. Stockton, CA 19,776 (3%)
the remaining 16 of the top 25 metros by Filipino population:
3. New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA 166,232 (1%)
4. Honolulu, HI 120,677 (13%)
6. Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI 83,060 (1%)
8. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA 47,480 (1%)
10. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 40,443 (1%)
12. Las Vegas-Paradise, NV 32,609 (2%)
14. Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land, TX 24,680 (0.4%)
15. Kahului-Wailuku, HI 22,756 (16%)
16. Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 21,938 (1%)
18. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 17,643 (0.3%)
20. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 12,706 (0.2%)
21. Jacksonville, FL 12,020 (1%)
22. Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI 11,988 (0.3%)
23. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 11,976 (0.3%)
24. Hilo, HI 11,856 (7%)
25. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach, FL 11,834 (0.2%)
I rounded the percentages out, except for those that would have rounded out to zero. Also, filipina chicks are hot
Ya got that right!
I'm not sure if all the figures you have here are 100% accurate though b/c I know Virginia Beach's metro (aka Hampton Roads) has more than 22,000. VA Beach by itself has about that many (I know this b/c my girl is one of them ). I always understood VA to rank 4th after LA, the Bay, and then NJ, but that may have been looking at the entire states of VA and NJ rather than metros, and combining DC's metro with all of VA. I read that years ago. But either way, I'm pretty sure Hampton Roads has at least over 32,000 - I had originally heard 40,000+ but I'm getting the 32K from this page:
The rest all sounded about right to me, but I'm curious how accurate any of these sources actually are. I just always felt like the Bay was the capitol for Filipinos in the US w/ Sac and Stockton backing it up, even though everyone here has cousins in LA, Long Beach and SD lol.
Most of the Filipino R&B groups that were blowing up in the 90's (that most people who aren't Filipino probably haven't heard of) were from here except for a handful. SD, LA and HI all had a few, but almost all the main ones were from here like Jocelyn Enriquez, One Voice, Kai, Innerlude, Pinay, Drop n' Harm, Buffy, etc. Pretty much anyone who was known outside of CA was from up here besides Epic Voices (HI), Devotion (LA) and Simple (SD). Can't remember any other really known groups from anywhere else. Same with the Filipino DJ's like Q-Bert & Shortkut and the rest of the ISP. There were a ton of sick Filipino DJ's from LA like Beat Junkies, and I think a good amount from SD too, but I can't think of any that were really that well known outside of CA.
From my experiences.. San Diego, Norfolk/VA Beach, Jacksonville Fl and the Washington DC area.
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). I always understood VA to rank 4th after LA, the Bay, and then NJ, but that may have been looking at the entire states of VA and NJ rather than metros, and combining DC's metro with all of VA. I read that years ago. But either way, I'm pretty sure Hampton Roads has at least over 32,000 - I had originally heard 40,000+ but I'm getting the 32K from this page:
