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The 1990 United States census and 2000 United States census found that non-Hispanic whites were becoming a minority in Los Angeles. Estimates for the 2010 United States census results find Latinos to be approximately half (47-49%) of the city's population, growing from 40% in 2000 and 30-35% in 1990 census.
Ethnic Enclaves of Los Angeles Metro Area Ethnic Enclave Name Neighborhood Ethnicity Represented Official Recognition or Dedicated District East Asian Ethnic Enclaves Chinatown: Chinatown, Los Angeles: Chinese Americans, Taiwanese Americans, & Hong Kong Americans; as well as many other Asian Americans: Yes, 1938 626/SGV
Downey, California – most affluent Mexican-American community. [ 290] East Los Angeles, California – historic urban Mexican-American enclave (see Chicano ). [ 291] Guymon, Oklahoma – in the Oklahoma Panhandle. [ 288] Cicero, Illinois and Little Village, Chicago; Chicagoland has one of largest Mexican populations.
Areas such as Monterey Park, Koreatown, Long Beach, Torrance and Cerritos each became home to between 10,000 and 18,000 Asians in the 1980s. Forty years later, these communities have tripled in ...
In 1988, up to 3,000 Iranian Armenians were scheduled to arrive in the Los Angeles area. [9] From 1987 to 1989, 90% of Armenians leaving the Soviet Union settled in Los Angeles. [10] By the 1990s political conflict in the former Soviet Union caused more Armenians in that area to move to Los Angeles.
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August 22, 1986. Designated NHLD. June 12, 1995 [ 3] Little Tokyo ( Japanese: リトル・トーキョー ), also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America. [ 4] It is the largest and most populous of ...
Area code. 323. Historic Filipinotown (alternately known as HiFi [ 1]) is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. In 2008, it was one of the five Asian Pacific Islander neighborhoods ( Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, and Thai Town) in the city that received federal recognition as a Preserve America neighborhood.