List of U.S. cities with significant Korean American populations explained

U.S. cities with significant Korean-American populations
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Cities with significant Korean American populations represent municipalities with critical masses of Korean Americans in their total urban or suburban populations. Information is based on the 2005-2009 American Community Survey or as specified in each table. The list includes those who have emigrated from South Korea as well as Korean Americans of multiple generations. There are numbers of North Koreans living in the United States, despite North Korean citizens being unable to freely emigrate out of their country. As of 2022, Americans of Korean descent composed an estimated 0.5% of the population, or 1,501,587 people.[1]

The three metropolitan areas with the highest Korean American populations as per the 2009 American Community Survey were the Greater Los Angeles Combined Statistical Area (300,000), the Greater New York Combined Statistical Area (200,000), and the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area (93,000).[2] [3] Southern California and the New York City Metropolitan Area[4] have the largest populations of Koreans outside of the Korean Peninsula.[5] Among Korean Americans born in Korea, the Los Angeles metropolitan area had 226,000 as of 2012; Greater New York (including Northern New Jersey) was home to 153,000 Korean-born Korean Americans; and metropolitan Washington, D.C., with 60,000.[6]

By percentage, the Korean American population of Bergen County, New Jersey, in the New York City Metropolitan Area, at 6.5% of Bergen County's population in 2022,[7] was the highest of any county in the United States. Bergen County, host to the county's highly ranked Academies magnet public high school[8] [9] [10] as well as to the North American headquarters operations of South Korean chaebols including Samsung,[11] LG Corp,[12] and Hanjin Shipping,[13] was home to all of the nation's top 10 municipalities by percentage of Korean population.[14] These top 10 municipalities in the growing Korean hub of Bergen County, New Jersey, across the George Washington Bridge from New York City, were led by Palisades Park,[15] the municipality with the highest density of ethnic Koreans in the Western Hemisphere. Displaying ubiquitous Hangul signage and known as the Korean Village,[16] Palisades Park uniquely comprises a Korean majority, at 53.7% of the borough's population in 2022.[17] with both the highest Korean-American density and percentage of any municipality in the United States. The city of Los Angeles contained the highest Korean American population of any city proper in 2010, approximately 108,282.[18]

=Large cities

The list of large cities (population greater than 250,000) with a Korean-American population of at least 1% of the total population.

RankCityStateKorean-Americans 2010Percentage 2010Korean-Americans 2015Percentage 2015
align=center 1Los AngelesCaliforniaalign=right align=right %align=right align=right %
align=center 2HonoluluHawaiialign=right align=right %[19] align=right align=right %
-align=center 3AnaheimCaliforniaalign=right align=right %align=right %
align=center 4San JoseCaliforniaalign=right align=right %align=right align=right %
align=center 5New York CityNew Yorkalign=right align=right %align=right align=right %
align=center 6AuroraColoradoalign=right align=right %align=right align=right %
align=center 7AnchorageAlaskaalign=right align=right %align=right align=right %
align=center 8San FranciscoCaliforniaalign=right align=right %align=right align=right %
align=center 9SeattleWashingtonalign=right align=right %align=right align=right %
align=center 10PlanoTexasalign=right align=right %align=right align=right %

Medium-sized cities

List of medium-sized cities (population between 100,000 and 250,000) with a Korean-American population of at least 1% of the total population.

RankCityStateKorean-AmericansPercentage
align=center 1FullertonCaliforniaalign=right align=right %
align=center 2TorranceCaliforniaalign=right align=right %
align=center 3IrvineCaliforniaalign=right align=right %
align=center 4GlendaleCaliforniaalign=right align=right %
align=center 5Santa ClaraCaliforniaalign=right align=right %
align=center 6BellevueWashingtonalign=right align=right %
align=center 7Ann ArborMichiganalign=right align=right %
align=center 8SchaumburgIllinoisalign=right align=right %
align=center 9KilleenTexasalign=right align=right %
align=center 10BerkeleyCaliforniaalign=right align=right %
align=center 11CambridgeMassachusettsalign=right align=right %
align=center 12FremontCaliforniaalign=right align=right %
align=center 13TacomaWashingtonalign=right align=right %
align=center 14CarrolltonTexasalign=right align=right %
align=center 15Santa ClaritaCaliforniaalign=right align=right %

Municipalities with density of at least 500 Korean Americans per square mile in 2010

Main articles: Koreatown, Palisades Park (팰리세이즈파크 코리아타운) and Koreatown, Fort Lee (포트리 코리아타운)

(Note that Manhattan and Queens are official boroughs of New York City.)

RankMunicipalityCounty or cityStateKorean AmericansDensity of Korean Americans per square milePercentage of municipality's population
align=center 1Palisades ParkBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right (2022)%
align=center 2Fort LeeBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 3EdgewaterBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 4Cliffside ParkBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 5LeoniaBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 6La PalmaOrange CountyCaliforniaalign=right %
align=center 7RidgefieldBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 8ManhattanNew York CityNew Yorkalign=right %
align=center 9CerritosLos Angeles CountyCaliforniaalign=right %
align=center 10CresskillBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 11Great Neck PlazaNassau CountyNew Yorkalign=right %
align=center 12FullertonOrange CountyCaliforniaalign=right %
align=center 13River EdgeBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 14TorranceLos Angeles CountyCaliforniaalign=right %
align=center 15QueensNew York CityNew Yorkalign=right %
align=center 16NorthvaleBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 17ClosterBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 18Englewood CliffsBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %

Top ten municipalities as ranked by Korean-American percentage of total population in 2010

RankMunicipalityCountyStatePercentage
align=center 1Palisades ParkBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right % (2022)
align=center 2LeoniaBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 3RidgefieldBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 4Fort LeeBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 5ClosterBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 6Englewood CliffsBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 7NorwoodBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 8EdgewaterBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 9CresskillBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %
align=center 10DemarestBergen CountyNew Jerseyalign=right %

See also

References

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Notes and References

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    Book: Charles K. Armstrong. The Koreas. 22 August 2013. Routledge. 978-1-136-16132-2. 82.
    Book: Rough Guides. The Rough Guide to California. 2 May 2011. Penguin. 978-1-4053-8302-8. 89.
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  7. Web site: ACS Demographic and Housing Estimates Bergen County, New Jersey. United States Census Bureau. August 18, 2024.
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  10. Web site: Welcome to the Bergen County Academies . Bergen County Technical Schools . October 27, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141027232737/http://bcts.bergen.org/index.php/bergen-county-academies . October 27, 2014 .
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  12. Web site: LG breaks ground on Englewood Cliffs HQ. Michael W. Curley, Jr.. NorthJersey.com - part of the USA TODAY network. February 7, 2017. March 6, 2017.
  13. Web site: Stranded container ship gets go-ahead to dock in Elizabeth. Richard Newman. NorthJersey.com via Gannett. September 20, 2016. September 22, 2016.
  14. Web site: Mahwah library hosts Korean tea ceremony to celebrate new year. James O'Neill. North Jersey Media Group. February 22, 2015. February 22, 2015.
  15. Book: Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues Second Edition, Edited by Pyong Gap Min. Pine Forge Press – An Imprint of Sage Publications, Inc. 2006. 2014-07-11. 9781412905565. March 31, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230331160120/https://books.google.com/books?id=5PSYZMs8TzEC&q=fort+lee+koreatown+pyong+min&pg=PA237. live.
  16. Web site: Palisades Park Municipal Court. SpinJ Corporation. August 26, 2014. October 28, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141028004824/http://www.town-court.com/getTownCourt.php?courtID=1071. live.
  17. Web site: ACS Demographic and Housing Estimates Palisades Park borough, New Jersey. United States Census Bureau. August 18, 2024.
  18. Web site: Los Angeles city, California QuickLinks. United States Census Bureau. October 27, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20120415235828/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0644000lk.html. April 15, 2012. dead.
  19. Web site: Korean Population by County, Island and Census Tract in the State of Hawaii: 2010 . Ohadatabook.com. 27 May 2018.

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