I thought our population was close to 300,000? I guess I'm wrong.

http://www.voanews.com/lao/archive/2007-01...-01-12-voa2.cfm



The 2005 American Community Survey estimates the Lao-American population at 193,247 compared to 168,707 in 2000. The vast majority were estimated to live in the West(95,574), followed by the South(44,471), Midwest(37,820), and Northeast(15,382).

The top states in terms of Lao-American populations according to the 2005 ACS estimates were: California (63,318), Texas (12,643), Minnesota (11,636), Washington (10,638), Iowa (6,129), North Carolina (5,854), Goergia (5,546), Tennessee (4,781), Michigan (4,735), and Florida (4,035). States that appear to have had significant increases in Lao population when comparing the 2005 ACS estimates to the 2000 Census figures include California, Washington, Iowa and Michigan with lesser increases in many other states including Minnesota (up from an enumerated 9,940 in the 2000 census). Notable decreases in Lao-American population show up in the 2005 ACS data in the states of Illinois and Wisconsin.

The total 2005 Hmong population in the U.S. was estimated at 183,265 compared to 169,428 in the 2000 census. The figures show that the Hmong population in the Midwest(95,902) has now far outpaced the West(73,526), continues to grow in the South(12,621), but remains very small in the Northeast(1,216).

The 2005 ACS estimtaes the top 10 states in terms of Hmong-American populations as follpws: California (65,345), Minnesota (46,352), Wisconsin (38,814), Michigan (7,769), Cplorado (4,285), NorthCarolina (4,172), Georgia (3,324), Missouri (1,553), Florida (1,423), and Washington (1,380).

The latest U.S census report also shows estimates for other Southeast Asian American ethnic groups

The 2005 American Community Survey estimates the Vietnamese-American population across the U.S. at 1,418,334 compared to 1,122,528 enumerated in the 2000 census (Vietnamese alone ethnic identification). The 2005 ACS estimates provide Vietnamese-American population regional distributions as follows West (694,859), South (425,248), Northeast (162,707), and Midwest (135,520).

The total 2005 Cambodian population in the U.S. was estimated at 217,438 compared to 171,937 (Cambodian alone ethnic identification) enumerated in 2000. More than 100,000 Cambodians were estimeted to live in the Western states, just under 50,000 in the Northeast, around 40,000 in the South and just under 20,000 in the Midwest. The top 10 rank-order states in terms of Cambodian-American populations were California (83,562), Massachusetts (24,172), Washington (16,082), Texas (12,112), Florida (7,889), Pennsylvania (6,194), Ohio (6,160), Minnesota (6,101), North Carolina(5,128), and Georgia (4,562).

200,000 was like 20 years ago. Many Lao would not even participate in the survey.

You sure about that? I think people has no choice to be in the count total or not.

I also wonder what is the Thai population. They always count cambodians, Laotians, Viets and Hmongs. What about Thai? I am guessing between 130,000-200,00

I think not much thai in the US compare to other asian country because thailand never have war and no Refugees

In 2000, the population of Thai origin in the US was about 150,000. That number should have increased since.

Look at Table 4 of the census below:

http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-16.pdf

They even mis-counted how many illegal immigrants in the US, what make you think they would not mis count how many Lao, thai, khmer, viet in the US. Asian has a tendency not to participate in the survey. They 're one of the isolated group, and many don't care. Besides the West coast, i barely see thai any where.

Take a look at this data, is almost 50,000 different. That's a lot of gab.

http://www.hmongstudies.org/LaoCensusData.html

Thai 150,000? No way. The most is 80,000. Most of the Thais live in Los Angeles.

Yeah, I think there's more now.

I think the Thais maybe grouped in with the Lao category.

I doubt it. Laos and Thailand are 2 seperate nations. I think the survery is flawed. The Thai population in the states cannot be 150,000 because they didn't settle in the U.S. from war torn countries like Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The largest Thai population is in Los Angeles called "Thai town"(which shouldn't even be consider a 'town', to begin it, they got like 3-4 stores and they call it a town lol) Most of the Thais that I come across in the U.S. are those Chinese-Thai, and a few Thai-Issan. Most of the "Thais" work in resturants as waiters.

and don't forget those that married Farang. 150,000 thai in the US is way, way off. Asian population data is little bit off, some part due to lack of participation. Most Asian care more about making $ .

Any one of u participated in the census????.......i never did...lolzzzz