Who’s Oldest or More Educated? Demographic and Socioeconomic Portrait of Race/Ethnic and Ancestry Groups

How does the Filipino population differ from the total Asian population in the United States? Which Asian group is the oldest or the largest? Is the Native Hawaiian population larger than all other Pacific Islander groups?

New American Community Survey (ACS) population tables released today contain the answers and a trove of other detailed data on hundreds of race, Hispanic origin, ancestry and tribal groups.

We release ACS characteristics for race and ethnic groups every year but the new 2017-2021 ACS Selected Population Tables (SPT) and American Indian and Alaska Native Tables (AIANT) is an even broader release that covers a 5-year period and offers social, economic, housing and demographic characteristics of more population groups at numerous geographic levels.

There are 399 population groups in the 2017-2021 SPT that had a national population estimate of at least 7,000 and 1,059 population groups in the 2017-2021 AIANT that had a national population estimate of at least 100. This is the third time the Census Bureau has released these detailed 5-year ACS estimates.

In this article, we present data on the detailed Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHPI) race alone and race alone or in any combination populations.

Among the Asian population, Asian Indian (22.8%) was the largest race alone group and Chinese, except Taiwanese the largest alone or in any combination group (23.0%).

The race alone population includes respondents who reported one detailed race response, such as Korean, and no other races. The race alone or in any combination population includes respondents who reported one response, such as Korean, and respondents who reported multiple races, such as Korean and Vietnamese or Korean and Black or African American.

As a result, the race alone or in any combination population represents the maximum number of people who identified as that detailed Asian or NHPI group.

These concepts are important to frame the discussion of racial and ethnic composition and help us understand the changing demographics of our country as it becomes much more multiracial.

We highlight the 10 largest Asian and six largest NHPI population groups to illustrate the type of data available in these products. These groups were selected based on the race alone population size.

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