Indian Americans

Indian Americans

Indian American diaspora in 2020
Total population
5,160,203 (2023) 1.6% of the U.S. population (2023) (ancestry or ethnic origin) 2,910,042 (2023) (born in India)
Regions with significant populations
New Jersey • New York metropolitan area • San Francisco Bay Area • Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area • Greater Philadelphia • Greater Boston • Atlanta metropolitan area • Chicago metropolitan area • Cleveland-Akron metropolitan area • Miami metropolitan area • Indianapolis metropolitan area • Milwaukee metropolitan area • Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex • Greater Houston • Research Triangle • Greater Orlando • Phoenix metropolitan area • Metro Detroit • Greater Pittsburgh Region • Greater Los Angeles • Minneapolis–Saint Paul • San Diego County • Charlotte metropolitan area • Denver metropolitan area • Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio • Cincinnati metropolitan area • San Antonio • Tampa Bay area • Greater St. Louis • Las Vegas Valley • Seattle metropolitan area
Languages
American English • Indian English • Hindi • Urdu • Telugu • Gujarati • Bengali • Tamil • Punjabi • Marathi • Malayalam • Assamese• Sindhi • Kannada • Kashmiri • Konkani • other Indian languages
Religion
48% Hinduism 15% Christianity 15% no religion 11% other religions (mainly Sikhism) 8% Islam (Pew Research Center)
Related ethnic groups
Indo-Caribbean Americans • Indo-Fijian Americans • Indian people • other South Asian Americans • Indian diaspora • South Asian diaspora • Indian Canadians

Indian Americans are Americans whose ancestry originates fully or partially from India. With a population of more than 5.1 million, Indian Americans make up approximately 1.6% of the U.S. population and are the largest group of South Asian Americans, the largest Asian-alone group, and the second-largest group of Asian Americans after Chinese Americans.

Indian Americans are sometimes confused with American Indians, also known as Native Americans. American Indians are not actually connected to India.

References

1. ↑ "US Census Data". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2024-09-21.
2. ↑ "PLACE OF BIRTH FOR THE FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, Universe: Foreign-born population excluding population born at sea, 2023 American Community Survey Estimates".
3. ↑ Terrazas, Aaron (2010-06-09). "Indian Immigrants in the United States". migrationpolicy.org. Archived from the original on July 21, 2015. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
4. ↑ "Do you speak Telugu? Welcome to America". BBC News. October 21, 2018. Archived from the original on December 13, 2019.
5. ↑ https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf Archived February 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine see page 3
6. ↑ "Religion Among Asian Americans". Pew Research Center. October 11, 2023. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
7. ↑ "Indians surpass Chinese as largest 'Asian-alone' group in U.S." NBC News. 2023-09-26. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
8. ↑ Koshy, Susan (1998). "Category Crisis: South Asian Americans and Questions of Race and Ethnicity". Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. 7 (3): 285–320. doi:10.1353/dsp.1998.0013. ISSN 1911-1568. S2CID 143516386.