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Houston has large populations of immigrants from Asia. In addition, the city has the largest Vietnamese American population in Texas and third-largest in the United States as of 2004. [1] [2] Houston also has one of the largest Chinese American, [3] Pakistani American, [4] [5] and Filipino American [6] [7] populations in the United States.
In the decade of the 1970s the first schools teaching the Chinese language appeared. [6] By 1983 there were about 30,000 people of Chinese origin in the Houston area. [9] The first businesses of the new Houston Chinatown, located near Bellaire and Beltway 8, opened that year. [14]
The following is a list of places in the United States with a population fewer than 100,000 in which at least three percent (five percent in Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay areas) of the total population is Chinese, according to the 2010-2015 American Community Survey, and the 2010 U.S. Census for the U.S. territories.
Chinatown, Houston. / 29.70500°N 95.54500°W / 29.70500; -95.54500. Chinatown ( Chinese: 華埠 or 中國城) is a community in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States. There is another Chinatown called "Old Chinatown" located within the East Downtown Houston district near the George R. Brown Convention Center.
In the U.S. state of Texas, Houston is the largest city by both population and area. With a 1850 United States census population of 2,396—and 596,163 a century later, in 1950—Houston's population has experienced positive growth trends. [1]
Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, [ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ] encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas. With a population of 7,510,253 in 2023 ...
East Downtown Houston ( EaDo) is a district in Houston, Texas. The East Downtown Management District ( EDMD ), manages the area with offices headquartered at START Houston, a co-working space 1121 Delano Street. [1] The community is located east of Downtown Houston and north of Interstate 45 (Gulf Freeway). [2]
As of the 2010 U.S. Census there were 11,813 ethnic Koreans in Harris County, Texas, in the Houston area, making up 4.2% of the county's Asian population. In 2015 Haejin E. Koh, author of "Korean Americans in Houston: Building Bridges across Cultures and Generations," wrote in regards to the census figure that "community leaders believe the number is twice as large."