WHERE ARE MOST KOREANS IN THE UNITED STATES?
According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the Korean American community is the fifth largest Asian American subgroup, after the Chinese, Filipinos, Indians, and Vietnamese. There are approximately 1.4 million Korean Americans, with the largest populations being found in California (esp. in the Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas), New York, Georgia, Hawaii, Texas, Washington, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Nevada, Oregon, and Oklahoma. Los Angeles Koreatown is home to the largest population of Koreans outside of Asia. Palisades Park, New Jersey has the highest concentration of people of Korean ancestry in the United States at 36% of the population. Georgia is home to the fastest-growing Korean community in the U.S., growing at a rate of 88% from 1990 to 2000. WHAT DO MOST KOREANS BELIEVE? The majority of Korean Americans hold to some form of Christianity with over 2,800 Korean denominational churches (mostly Protestants) and only 89 Buddhist temples.
