What Asian nationality does Hawaii have most?

[graysonigel]

I belive the number of Filipinos in Hawaii is really huge! So I must say it's the Filipinos.

[Jonah K]

Based on the 2008 American Community Survey published by the U.S. Census Bureau, the "Asian" population of Hawai'i was as follows:

Asian Indian - 1,497
Chinese - 53,266
Filipino - 175,147
Japanese - 161,856
Korean - 40,232
Vietnamese - 9,644
Other Asian (Cambodian, Laotian, Malaysian, etc.) - 53,812

Things get a little tricky when it comes to the "two or more races" category. The total population of folks with "two or more races" in Hawai'i in 2008 was 275,694. The Census Bureau breaks that number down as follows:

White and Black or African American - 6,367
White and American Indian and Alaska Native - 9,511
White and Asian - 61,543
Black or African American and American Indian and Alaska Native - 1,456

Unfortunately, that leaves 196,817 folks that could be Japanese/Filipino/Hawaiian, etc.

[Jayhawk in Hawaii]

Originally Posted by Jonah K

Things get a little tricky when it comes to the "two or more races" category. The total population of folks with "two or more races" in Hawai'i in 2008 was 275,694. The Census Bureau breaks that number down as follows:

White and Black or African American - 6,367
White and American Indian and Alaska Native - 9,511
White and Asian - 61,543
Black or African American and American Indian and Alaska Native - 1,456

Unfortunately, that leaves 196,817 folks that could be Japanese/Filipino/Hawaiian, etc.

Yeah... I had a bit of a problem with this year's census, where unlike the previous one, the one for 2010 reverted back to simple "black/white/etc.", and left me with the challenge of how to answere the race/ethnicity question "accurately." When are they ever going to come up with the classification: "Creole, non-Louisianan"?

[jhiker1o]

My Mom's retired relatives from New York moved to Oahu, Hawaii and bought a house there. It reminds them of the Philippines and from what I have seen it is similar in many ways.

[oslc]

Japanese and Filipino on Kauai. No chinatown on Kauai. Very small one on Oahu.

[Tiger Beer]

Originally Posted by jhiker1o

My Mom's retired relatives from New York moved to Oahu, Hawaii and bought a house there. It reminds them of the Philippines and from what I have seen it is similar in many ways.

Interesting enough, when I flew into Kauai, I actually saw chickens on the airport grounds! (I mean, when you drive out of the airport with the rental car, not the runway itself).

I've noticed a Filipino flavor, a Japanese flavor, a Hawaiian flavor, and a mainland flavor all mixed in.

[Balad1]

Originally Posted by jhiker1o

My Mom's retired relatives from New York moved to Oahu, Hawaii and bought a house there. It reminds them of the Philippines and from what I have seen it is similar in many ways.

Yes, both good and bad.

[HankDfrmSD]

Originally Posted by ambermerci

Japanese, korean, fillipino, chinese?
Who is where?

If you go to the basic City-Data page at the very top of this page:

//www.city-data.com/

you can type in the zip codes of the various communities on Oahu (or anywhere else), and see the ethnic breakdown, like this:

//www.city-data.com/zips/96734.html

Unfortunately, it doesn't break down "asian" into what-kind-of-asian.

Here's an Oahu zipcode map that can help you pick neighborhoods:

http://www.cccarto.com/cmaps/zipcode/index.html

There's a lot of difference from community to community. Look at 96734 (Kailua - very Haole) vs 96797 (Waipahu - very Filipino), for example.

Hank