Demographics of Filipino Americans: Difference between revisions

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Filipino Americans are the largest group of [[Overseas Filipinos]], and the majority were born outside of the United States; at the same time, more than 73% are United States citizens.<ref name="censr17" /> Among Asian Americans, Filipino Americans are the most integrated in American society, and are described by [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] Professor Pei-te Lien as being "acculturated and economically incorporated".<ref name="NakanishiLai2003">{{cite book |author=Pei-te Lien |title=Asian American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7425-1850-6 |editor1=Don T. Nakanishi |page=198 |chapter=Ethnicity and Adaption: Comparing Filipino, Koreans, and Vietnamese in Southern California |editor2=James S. Lai |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGB8Z9wAQT4C&pg=PA198}}</ref> One in five is a [[multiracial American]]. Multiple languages are spoken by Filipino Americans, and the majority are [[Roman Catholic]]. {{as of|2004|alt=A U.S. Census Bureau survey done in 2004 found that}} Filipino Americans had the second highest median family income amongst Asian Americans, and had a high level of educational achievement.{{#tag:Ref|{{Cite report | date =February 2007 | title =The American Community-Asians: 2004 | publisher =United States Census Bureau | url =https://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/acs-05.pdf | access-date =22 December 2014 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070926002242/http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/acs-05.pdf | archive-date =26 September 2007 | url-status =dead}} – part of the American Community Survey (ACS) report series based on responses to the 2004 ACS question on race, which asked all respondents to report one or more races.<ref name="American Community Survey Reports">[https://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/ACS_reports.html American Community Survey Reports], United States Census Bureau.</ref>|name=ACS-05}}

[[Interracial marriage in the United States|Interracial marriage]] among Filipinos is common.<ref>{{cite book |title=Filipino Americans: transformation and identity |last=Root |first=Maria P. P. |year=1997 |publisher=[[SAGE Publications|SAGE]] |location=[[Thousand Oaks, California]] |isbn=978-0-7619-0579-0 |pages=80–94 |chapter=Contemporary Mixed-Heritage Filipino Americans: Fighting Colonized Identities |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jK0RrwCHqQC&pg=PA80}}</ref> They have the largest number of interracial marriages among Asian immigrant groups in California—<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.asian-nation.org/interracial.shtml |title=Interracial Dating & Marriage |publisher=asian-nation.org |author=C.N. Le |access-date=22 December 2014}}</ref> only [[Japanese Americans]] have a higher rate nationally.<ref>{{cite book |title=Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People |last=Reimers |first=David M. |year=2005 |publisher=[[NYU Press]] |isbn=9780814775356 |page=173 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-NNO9jGfIQC&pg=PA173}}<br />{{cite book|author1=Larry Hajime Shinagawa|author2=Michael Jang|title=Atlas of American Diversity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5w9P64051oC&pg=PA53|year=1998|publisher=[[Rowman Altamira]]|isbn=978-0-7619-9128-1|page=53|quote=Japanese American wives and Filipino American wives had the highest proportions of intermarriages (51.9% and 40.2%, respectively).}}</ref> Compared to other Asian Americans, Filipino Americans are more likely to have a Hispanic spouse.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Xiaojian Zhao|author2=Edward J.W. Park PhD|title=Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History &#91;3 volumes&#93;: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AxIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA848|date=26 November 2013|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|isbn=978-1-59884-240-1|page=848}}</ref> Statistically, Filipino American women are more likely to marry outside of their ethnicity (38.9%) than Filipino American men (17.6%); other Asian American populations have lower rates of marrying outside of their race than both Filipino American men and women.<ref name="Nadal2011"/> Between 2008 and 2010, 48% of Filipino American marriages were with non-Asians.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/asianamericans-graphics/filipinos/ |title=Filipino Americans |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2014 |website=Pewsocialtrends.org |publisher=Pew Research Center |access-date=8 November 2014}}</ref> It is also noted that 21.8% of Filipino Americans are [[Multiracial#United States|multiracial]], second among Asian Americans.<ref name="Nadal2011">{{cite book|author=Kevin Nadal|title=Filipino American Psychology: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zN7-s84jAkoC&pg=PT144|date=23 March 2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-01977-1|pages=144–145}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.asian-nation.org/multiracial.shtml |author=C.N. Le |title=Multiracial / Hapa Asian Americans |publisher=asian-nation.org |access-date=22 December 2014}}</ref> Depending on their parentage, multiracial Filipino Americans may refer to themselves as ''[[Filipino mestizo|Mestizo]]'', ''[[Tsinoy]]'', ''[[Afro-Asian American|Blackapino]]'', and ''[[Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans|Mexipino]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife, Volume 1 |last1=Lee |first1=Jonathan H. X. |last2=Nadeau |first2=Kathleen M. |year=2011 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313350665 |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofas00leej/page/390 390] |access-date=24 July 2012 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofas00leej/page/390}}<br />{{cite book|author=Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr.|title=Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZITVWnCf8KkC|date=9 May 2012|publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]]|isbn=978-0-8135-5326-9}}<br />{{cite book|author=Kevin Nadal|title=Filipino American Psychology: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zN7-s84jAkoC&pg=PT76|date=23 March 2011|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=978-1-118-01977-1|pages=76–77}}<br />{{cite book|author=Frederick Luis Aldama|title=Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0O-Jh5dugUC&pg=PA77|date=15 September 2010|publisher=[[University of Texas Press]]|isbn=978-0-292-73953-6|pages=77–80}}<br />{{cite book|author=Maria P. P. Root|editor=Maria P. P. Root|title=Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jK0RrwCHqQC&pg=PA80|date=20 May 1997|publisher=SAGE Publishing|isbn=978-0-7619-0579-0|pages=80–94|chapter=Contemporary Mixed-Heritage Filipino Americans: Fighting Colonized Identities}}</ref>

The earliest recorded presence of Filipinos in what is now the United States is October 1587 when [[Sailor|mariners]] under Spanish command [[Landing of the first Filipinos|landed]] in [[Morro Bay, California]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Manila Men in the New World: Filipino Migration to Mexico and the Americas from the Sixteenth Century |last=Mercene |first=Floro L. |year=2007 |publisher=The [[University of the Philippines Press]] |isbn=978-971-542-529-2 |page=161 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSqhZphG_gQC&pg=PA38}}</ref><ref name="RRodis2006">{{cite news |title=A century of Filipinos in America |author=Rodel Rodis |url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/mindfeeds/mindfeeds/view/20061025-28651/A_century_of_Filipinos_in_America |newspaper=Inquirer |date=25 October 2006 |access-date=22 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522213813/http://globalnation.inquirer.net/mindfeeds/mindfeeds/view/20061025-28651/A_century_of_Filipinos_in_America |archive-date=22 May 2011}}</ref> The earliest permanent Filipino American residents arrived in the Americans in 1763,<ref name="RRodis2006" /> settling in [[Louisiana]]'s [[bayou]] country.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/ancestorsintheamericas/time_06.html |title=Filipinos in Louisiana |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2001 |website=Ancestors in the Americas |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=24 November 2014|quote=There are the "Louisiana Manila men" with a presence recorded as early as 1763.}}<br />{{cite book|author1=Valerie Ooka Pang|author2=Li-Rong Lilly Cheng|title=Struggling To Be Heard: The Unmet Needs of Asian Pacific American Children|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZyIYK1M1ikC&pg=PA287|year=1998|publisher=[[SUNY Press]]|isbn=978-0-7914-3839-8|page=287}}<br />{{cite book|author=Mary Yu Danico|title=Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9J6kBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT48|date=3 September 2014|publisher=SAGE Publishing|isbn=978-1-4833-6560-2|page=48}}<br />{{cite book|author=Xiaojian Zhao|title=Asian American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQPRCA9S9WAC&pg=PA3|year=2009|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-34875-4|page=3}}</ref> They later created settlements in the [[Mississippi River Delta]] such as [[Saint Malo, Louisiana|Saint Malo]], or [[Manila Village]] in [[Barataria Bay]], Louisiana, and four others in present-day [[Plaquemines Parish|Plaquemines]] and [[Jefferson Parish|Jefferson]] Parishes.<ref name="RRodis2006" /><ref>{{cite book|author=Robin Cohen|title=The Cambridge Survey of World Migration|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgesurveyo00robi/page/253|date=2 November 1995|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=978-0-521-44405-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgesurveyo00robi/page/253 253]}}<br />{{cite book|author=Dirk Hoerder|title=Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PDVdU4YZWgC&pg=PA200|date=31 October 2002|publisher=[[Duke University Press]]|isbn=0-8223-8407-8|page=200}}<br />{{cite book|author=Thomas Bender|title=Rethinking American History in a Global Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-jJJRbXp84C&pg=PT202|date=14 April 2002|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|isbn=978-0-520-93603-4|page=202}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/volume2/history.htm |title=History and Culture of the Lower Mississippi Delta |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=10 March 2014 |website=Draft Heritage Study and Environmental Assessment |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |access-date=7 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109221933/http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/volume2/history.htm |archive-date=9 January 2015}}</ref> These early settlements were composed of sailors compelled to serve in [[Impressment|press gangs]] who had escaped from duty aboard [[Manila galleon|Spanish galleon]]s. They were documented by ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' journalist [[Lafcadio Hearn]] in 1883.<ref name="RRodis2006" /> These settlements were the first longstanding Asian American settlements in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Linda C. Tillman|author2=James Joseph Scheurich|title=The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vSKAAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA202|date=21 August 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-12843-2|page=202}}</ref> The last of these, Manila Village, survived until 1965 when it was destroyed by [[Hurricane Betsy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/pilipino1.html |title=Mabuhay Pilipino! (Long Life!): Filipino Culture in Southeast Louisiana |author=Laura Westbrook |work=Louisiana Division of the Arts |publisher=Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism |access-date=22 December 2014 |quote=The children who lived on the mainland would be released from school during harvest times to help the family during their busiest season, and those who recall Manila Village and other such communities recall it as an intensely exciting time. On 9 September 1965, Hurricane Betsy's 18-foot swells brought an end to the last of the Filipino stilt villages. The men who lived in the stilt villages during the fishing season joined their families on the mainland and assimilated into other professions.}}<br />{{cite book|title=The Spanish in New Orleans and Louisiana |last=Montero de Pedro |first=Jose |author2=Marques de Casa Mena |year=2000 |publisher=[[Pelican Publishing]] |location=Gretna, Louisiana |isbn=978-1-56554-685-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/spanishinneworle00mont/page/177 177] |url=https://archive.org/details/spanishinneworle00mont/page/177 |quote=The most important of these villages, Manila Village, which came to have a population of more than three hundred Filipinos, together with some Mexicans, Chinese and Spaniards, finally disappeared in 1965, destroyed by the dashing waves of Hurricane Betsy.}}</ref> An additional 2,000 were documented in [[New Orleans]] with their roots dating back to about 1806— the first being Augustin Feliciano from the Philippines's [[Bicol Region]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Filipinos of Greater Philadelphia |last1=Silva |first1=Eliseo Art Arambulo |last2=Peralt |first2=Victorina Alvarez |year=2012 |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |isbn=9780738592695 |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WsDpsSeBO3kC&pg=PA9 |quote=The March 1906 article "The Largest Colony of Filipinos in American" describes receiving a subscription from a Filipino living in New Orleans:"The Filipino who we addressed was Mr. Eulogio Yatar, and he sent us some astonishing news; in fact, we feel almost as the ethnologist does who discovers a new race of people, for we find that there is a colony of 2,000 Filipinos in that Queen City in the South. This community has been established for about a hundred years, the first who landed there being a native of Bicol by the name of Augustin Feliciano, who later served in the American navy in the war of 1812."}}</ref> Others came later from: [[Manila]], [[Cavite]], [[Ilocos]], [[Camarines]], [[Zamboanga (province)|Zamboanga]], [[Zambales]], [[Leyte]], [[Samar]], [[Antique (province)|Antique]], [[Bulacan]], [[Bohol]], [[Cagayan]], and [[Surigao (province)|Surigao]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Filipino |year=1906 |publisher=Filipino Company |location=Washington, D.C. |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xaVNAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA19}}</ref>

The [[War Brides Act]] of 1945, and subsequent Alien Fiancées and Fiancés Act of 1946,<ref>{{cite book |title=Student Almanac of Asian American History: From the exclusion era to today, 1925–present |author=Media Projects Incorporated |year=2004 |editor1-first=Carter |editor1-last=Smith |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |location=Westport Connecticut |isbn=978-0-313-32604-2 |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oPtFwpAKcBEC&pg=PA18 |access-date=11 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="TAM2007IUP">{{cite book|author1=Andrew R. L. Cayton|author2=Richard Sisson|author3=Chris Zacher|author4=Catherine Ceniza Choy|title=The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3Xn7jMx1RYC&pg=PA256|date=8 November 2006|chapter=Filipinos|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|isbn=0-253-00349-0|pages=256–257}}</ref> allowed veterans to return to the Philippines to bring back fiancées, wives, and children.<ref name="EPLJAG2006">{{cite book |title=Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans: effective activities, strategies, and assignments for classrooms and communities |last=Chen |first=Edith Wen-Chu |author2=Glenn Omatsu |author3=Emily Porcincula Lawsin |author4=Joseph A. Galura |year=2006 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |location=Lanham, Maryland |isbn=978-0-7425-5338-5 |pages=29–30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JqLOnyU081kC&pg=PA29}}</ref><ref name="CAINF">{{cite web |url=http://www.militarymuseum.org/Filipino.html |title=California's Filipino Infantry |author=Alex S. Fabros |work=The [[California State Military Museum]] |publisher=California State Military Department |access-date=10 May 2011}}</ref> In the years following the war, someSome sixteen thousand Filipinas entered the United States as war brides.,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Third Asiatic Invasion: Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1898–1946 |last=Baldoz |first=Rick |year=2011 |publisher=NYU Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8147-9109-7 |pages=227–228 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qtn31sdI4j8C&pg=PA228}}</ref> That is not to say only women and children were beneficiaries of the acts, for it was recorded that a lone Filipino [[groom]] immigrated during this period.<ref>{{cite book |title=Immigration and the legacy of Harry S. Truman |last=Daniels |first=Roger |year=2010 |publisher=[[Truman State University]] Press |location=Kirksville, Missouri |isbn=978-1-931112-99-4 |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z0ZCxForm1cC&pg=PA103}}</ref> These new immigrants formed a [[Immigrant generations#Second generation|second generation]] of Filipino Americans that grew Filipino American communities,<ref name="TAM2007IUP" /> providing [[nuclear family|nuclear families]].<ref name="SFIH" /> Immigration levels were impacted by the [[History of the Philippines (1946–1965)#American recognition of independence (1946)|independence of the Philippines from the United States]],<ref name="168Reimers2005" /> that occurred on 4 July 1946. The quota of non-naval immigration increased slightly to 100 because of the passage of the [[Luce–Celler Act of 1946]].<ref name="168Reimers2005">{{cite book |title=Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People |first=David |last=Reimers |publisher=NYU Press |year=2005 |isbn=9780814775356 |page=168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-NNO9jGfIQC&pg=PA168}}</ref> Thus, Filipino American communities developed around United States Navy bases, whose impact can still be seen today.<ref name="SFIH" /><ref>{{cite book |title=Common Destiny: Filipino American Generations |first=Juanita |last=Tamayo Lott |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2006 |isbn=9780742546509 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yjk7L_itcxEC&pg=PA24}}<br />{{cite book|author=Elliott Robert Barkan|title=A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage|url=https://archive.org/details/nationofpeopless00bark/page/211|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29961-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/nationofpeopless00bark/page/211 211]|quote=Since the mid-1970s, as a result of navy enlistment, Filipino-American communities have taken hold in cities with naval stations, including San Diego California; Bremerton, Washington; Jacksonville, Florida; and Charleston, South Carolina}}</ref> Filipino American communities were also settled near Army and Air Force bases.<ref name="SFIH">{{cite book |title=San Francisco's International Hotel: mobilizing the Filipino American |last=Habal |first=Estella |year=2007 |publisher=Temple University Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=978-1-59213-445-8 |pages=25–26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWhp5kLHkbUC&pg=PA25 |access-date=10 March 2011}}<br />{{cite book|author=Wenying Xu|title=Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZL6a3CiaHBEC&pg=PA11|year=2012|publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]]|isbn=978-0-8108-5577-9|page=11}}</ref> After World War II, until 1965, half of all Filipino immigrants to the United States were [[Military dependent|wives of U.S. servicemembers]].<ref name="FilipinoDiasporaUS"/> In 1946, the Filipino Naturalization Act allowed for naturalization,<ref>{{cite book |title=Locating Filipino Americans: ethnicity and the cultural politics of space |last=Bonus |first=Rick |year=2000 |publisher=Temple University Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=978-1-56639-779-7 |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kub5edzzP50C&pg=PA42}}</ref> and citizenship for Filipinos who had arrived before March 1943.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hist32/History/20th%20Century%20-%20post%20WWII.htm |title=20th Century – Post WWII |work=Asian American Studies |publisher=Dartmouth College |access-date=22 December 2014 |quote=Filipino Naturalization Act grants US citizenship to Filipinos who had arrived before 24 March 1943. |archive-date=30 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030182222/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hist32/History/20th%20Century%20-%20post%20WWII.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Beginning in 1948, due to the U.S. Education Exchange Act, Filipino nurses began to immigrate to the United States; 7,000 arrived that year.<ref name="Arnesen2007">{{cite book|author=Eric Arnesen|title=Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History: G-N; Index|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zEWsZ81Bd3YC&pg=PA1300|year=2007|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|isbn=978-0-415-96826-3|page=1300}}</ref>

As of the 2020 Census, Filipino Americans were the largest population of Asian Americans in 11 states: ([[Alaska]], [[Arizona]], [[Hawaii]], [[Idaho]], [[Montana]], [[Nevada]], [[New Mexico]], [[North Dakota]], [[South Dakota]], [[West Virginia]], and [[Wyoming]].),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://public.tableau.com/shared/NSS3GF2QT?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link&:embed=y |title=Largest Detailed Asian Alone or in Any Combination Group by State |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=21 September 2023 |website=Detailed Races and Ethnicities in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2020 Census |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=6 October 2023}}</ref> As of the 2020 Census, Filipino Americans wereand the second largest population of Asian Americans in 15 states: ([[Arkansas]], [[California]], [[Colorado]], [[Florida]], [[Illinois]], [[Kentucky]], [[Louisiana]], [[Maine]], [[Mississippi]], [[Oklahoma]], [[Oregon]], [[South Carolina]], [[Utah]], [[Virginia]], and [[Washington (state)|Washington]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://public.tableau.com/shared/BYMNBT3XS?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link&:embed=y |title=Second Largest Detailed Asian Alone or in Any Combination Group by State |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=21 September 2023 |website=Detailed Races and Ethnicities in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2020 Census |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=6 October 2023}}</ref> As of the 2020 Census, the ten states with the largest populations of Filipino Americans, including multiracial Filipino Americans, were California (1,741,613), Hawaii (383,200), Texas (234,091), Washington (194,682), Nevada (181,595), Florida (178,026), Illinois (167,748), New York (164,383), New Jersey (151,167), and Virginia (122,185).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://public.tableau.com/shared/7XHZCXBXW?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link&:embed=y |title=State Rankings: Filipino Alone or in Any Combination |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=21 September 2023 |website=Detailed Races and Ethnicities in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2020 Census |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=6 October 2023}}</ref>

The following is a list of states with significant Filipino American populations of over 70,000 in 2017.<ref name=Sep2018Inquirer />

Although Filipinos first arrived in California in the 16th century,<ref>{{cite book|author=Rick Bonus|title=Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kub5edzzP50C&pg=PA191|year=2000|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=978-1-56639-779-7|page=191|quote=However, the first recorded Filipino arrival on the continent is dated in 1587, in Morro Bay, California, by San Louis Obispo.}}<br />{{cite book|author=E. San Juan Jr.|title=Toward Filipino Self-Determination: Beyond Transnational Globalization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Cprm26URewC&pg=PA101|date=2 July 2010|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-2737-9|page=101}}</ref> the first documentation of a Filipino residing in California did not occur until 1781, when [[Antonio Miranda Rodriguez]] was counted in the census as a "chino".<ref name="EstradaUTx2009">{{cite book|author=William David Estrada|title=The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJu4Wau5G5UC&pg=PA281|date=17 February 2009|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-78209-9|page=281}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Jon Sterngass|title=Filipino Americans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-gjvUvVY-ngC&pg=PA40|date=1 January 2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0711-0|page=40}}<br />{{cite book|author=Larry L. Naylor|title=Cultural Diversity in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HhUKBb807GsC&pg=PA181|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-89789-479-1|page=181}}<br />{{cite book|author=Jonathan Y. Okamura|title=Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora: Transnational Relations, Identities, and Communities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=It917kzEPPsC&pg=PA36|date=11 January 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-53071-5|page=36}}<br />{{cite book|author=David J. Weber|title=Foreigners in Their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nozzhdtLVeYC&pg=PA35|year=2003|publisher=[[UNM Press]]|isbn=978-0-8263-3510-4|page=35}}<br />{{cite AV media |author2=Eloisa Borah |date=1 October 2018 |title=Antonio Miranda Rodriguez: Filipino Pioneer in Los Angeles |author=Kababayan Weekly |medium=YouTube video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgJId0jdPR8 |access-date=22 April 2018 |location=Los Angeles |publisher=[[KSCI]]}}</ref> Initially part of the expedition that would establish [[Pueblo de Los Ángeles]], Rodriguez was not present when Pueblo de Los Ángeles was founded.<ref name="EstradaUTx2009"/> Delayed in [[Baja California]] due to illness in his family, he arrived in [[Alta California]] later.<ref name="EstradaUTx2009"/><ref>{{cite book|author1=William Deverell|author2=Greg Hise|title=A Companion to Los Angeles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ek3WDQpWJcC&pg=PA36|date=23 November 2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-9095-7|page=36}}<br />{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Art exhibit on arrival of first Filipino in Los Angeles opens |newspaper=Inquirer |date=10 May 2014 <!--|access-date=24 November 2014-->}}</ref> In 1910, there were only five Filipinos in California;<ref name="CensusTruesdell1930"/> ten years later, in 1920, 2,674 Filipinos lived there.<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas J. Osborne|title=Pacific Eldorado: A History of Greater California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oL_KssqmgMIC&pg=PT315|date=22 January 2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-29216-7|page=315}}</ref> In 1930, there were about 35,000 Filipino agricultural laborers in [[Central Valley (California)|California's Central Valley]]<ref>{{cite book|author=James David Hart|title=A Companion to California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=teJCPQtWfOMC&pg=PA430|date=January 1987|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05544-5|page=430}}</ref> where the majority of Filipinos in the United States resided.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Rose Cuison Villazor|author2=Kevin Noble Maillard|author3=Leti Volpp|title=Loving V. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DluOsvcPAcoC&pg=PA62|date=25 June 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-19858-5|pages=59–72|chapter=American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California}}</ref> Filipino laborers tended to have better working conditions and earn more than their [[Mexican American|Mexican]] or Japanese counterparts;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.ca.gov/ser/downloads/cultural/work_camps_final.pdf |title=A Historical Context and Archaeological Research Design for Work Camp Properties in California |author=Anmarie Medin |date=2013 |website=California Department of Transportation |publisher=State of California |access-date=7 April 2015}}</ref> in addition, they were described as "[[dandy|dandies]] and sharp dressers".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/marlowe-would-be-proud-on-the-annotated-big-sleep/#! |title="Marlowe Would Be Proud": On "The Annotated Big Sleep" |last=Nicholson |first=Geoff |date=11 October 2018 |magazine=[[Los Angeles Review of Books]] |access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref>

In 1940, the Filipino population grew to 31,408 and continued to grow to 67,134 by 1960. It had nearly doubled to 135,248 by 1970, and by 1990 had grown to almost three quarters of a million people (733,941).<ref name="Espiritu2010"/> Since at least 1990, Filipino Americans have been the largest group of [[Asian Pacific American]]s in the state.<ref name="Atlas of American Diversity"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Huping Ling|title=Emerging Voices: Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJfrLhHyjM8C&pg=PA93|year=2008|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-4342-0|page=93}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://www.aapcho.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CA-State-Profile.pdf |title=California: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians & Pacific Islanders |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=August 2004 |publisher=Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations |access-date=1 January 2015}}</ref> In 1990, more than half (52%) of all Filipino Americans lived in California.<ref name="AGaw"/> In 2000, almost half of all Filipino Americans in the United States lived in California (49.4%), with [[Los Angeles County]] and [[San Diego County]] having the highest concentrations;<ref name="Taylor2006">{{cite book|author1=Ines M. Miyares|author2=Christopher A. Airriess|author3=James A. Taylor|title=Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1irfg6nYlXUC&pg=PA258|date=19 October 2006|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield Publishers]]|isbn=978-0-7425-6850-1|pages=258–259|chapter=Filipinos: The Invisible Ethnic Community}}</ref> additionally in 2000, California was home to nearly half (49%) of Filipino immigrants.<ref name="Sterngass2009-65">{{cite book|author=Jon Sterngass|title=Filipino Americans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-gjvUvVY-ngC&pg=PA65|date=1 January 2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0711-0|page=65}}</ref> In 2008, one out of every four Filipino Americans lived in [[Southern California]], numbering over one million.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=124&a=21464 |title=LA Consul General Throws Ceremonial First Pitch at Dodgers-Padres Pre-Game Event |author=Rene Villaroman |journal=Asian Journal Online |date=10 July 2007 |access-date=13 July 2009}}<br />{{cite book|author=Pyong Gap Min|title=Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PSYZMs8TzEC&pg=PA186|year=2006|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4129-0556-5|page=186|quote=The largest of these is in Southern California, in the Los Angeles-San Diego region, where nearly 480,000 Filipinos (more than one out of every four Filipino Americans) made their homes in 2000.}}</ref><ref name="Danico2014">{{cite book |author=Mary Yu Danico |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZleBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA872 |title=Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia |date=3 September 2014 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-1-4522-8189-6 |pages=872–874}}</ref>

[[Greater Los Angeles area|Greater Los Angeles]] is the metropolitan area home to the most Filipino Americans, with the population numbered around 606,657 in 2010;<ref>{{cite web |title=Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA CSA; California |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF2/SF2DP1/340M100US06348/popgroup~038 |work=2010 Census Summary File 2 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=9 December 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141210064841/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF2/SF2DP1/340M100US06348/popgroup~038 |archive-date=10 December 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Los Angeles County alone accounted for over 374,285 Filipinos,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF2/SF2DP1/0500000US06037/popgroup~038?slice=GEO~0500000US06037 |title=Filipino alone or in any combination |work=2010 Census Summary File 2 |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=9 December 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141210064937/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF2/SF2DP1/0500000US06037/popgroup~038?slice=GEO~0500000US06037 |archive-date=10 December 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the most of any single county in the U.S.<ref name="Atlas of American Diversity">{{cite book|author1=Larry Hajime Shinagawa|author2=Michael Jang|title=Atlas of American Diversity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5w9P64051oC&pg=PA46|year=1998|publisher=Rowman Altamira|isbn=978-0-7619-9128-1|page=46}}</ref> The Los Angeles region has the second-largest concentrated population of Filipinos in the world, surpassed only by [[Greater Manila|Manila]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Diana Ting Liu Wu|title=Asian Pacific Americans in the Workplace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Na1hLNoEbi4C&pg=PA51|year=1997|publisher=Rowman Altamira|isbn=978-0-7619-9122-9|page=51|quote=There are more ethnic Filipinos in Los Angeles than in any other city except Manila.}}<br />{{cite book|author=Dalton Higgins|title=Hip Hop World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gRs0ZfUNSzcC&pg=PA40|year=2009|publisher=Groundwood Books|isbn=978-0-88899-910-8|page=40}}<br />{{cite book|author=David James|title=The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n0mkbWQ6hIcC&pg=PA6|date=30 May 2005|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-93819-9|page=6}}</ref> Greater Los Angeles is also home to the largest number of Filipino immigrants (16% of the total Filipino immigrant population of the United States), as of 2011.<ref name="MPIjun2013"/> Filipinos are the second-largest group of Asian Americans in the region;<ref>{{cite news |author=Joseph Pimentel |title=Family says your thoughts of Filipino food are wrong |url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/filipino-627289-goldilocks-leelin.html |newspaper=[[Orange County Register]] |date=28 June 2014 |access-date=7 October 2018 |quote=Filipinos are the second-largest Asian American population in the Los Angeles/Long Beach/Santa Ana region, and the largest in the state of California. They are the second-largest Asian American group in the U.S.}}<br />{{cite web |last=Kitazawa |first=Yosuke |date=15 May 2012 |title=Filipinos are the Minority in Historic Filipinotown and L.A.'s Japanese Population in Steady Decline |url=https://www.kcet.org/history-society/filipinos-are-the-minority-in-historic-filipinotown-and-las-japanese-population-in | work=History & Society |publisher=[[KCET]] |location=Hollywood, California |access-date=16 March 2017}}</ref> however, in 2010, Filipinos were the largest population of Asian Americans within the city of Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://apahm.lacity.org/assets/doc/Demographic_Data_APAHM_website.compressed.pdf |title=Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: A Diverse and Growing Force in Los Angeles |author=Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles |date=May 2016 |website=2016 LA Asian Pacific American Heritage Month |publisher=City of [[Los Angeles]] |access-date=17 February 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219010318/http://apahm.lacity.org/assets/doc/Demographic_Data_APAHM_website.compressed.pdf |archive-date=19 February 2017}}</ref> In 2016, among those surveyed for a report entitled ''The Color of Wealth in Los Angeles'', Filipino Americans had the second-largest proportion of college graduates, with 76.2% having at least a bachelor's degree.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/besol/Color_of_Wealth_Report.pdf |title=Color of Wealth |author=Melany De La Cruz-Viesca |author2=Zhenxiang Chen |author3=Paul M. Ong |author4=Darrick Hamilton |author5=William A. Darity Jr. |date=2016 |publisher=The Color of Wealth in Los Angeles |access-date=20 March 2017}}</ref>

The city of Los Angeles designated a section of [[Westlake, Los Angeles, California|Westlake]] as [[Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles, California|Historic Filipinotown]] in 2002. It is now largely populated by [[Hispanic and Latino Americans]]. Most Filipinos who resided in the area and the city in general have moved to the suburbs,<ref name="Montoya2009">{{cite book|author=Carina Monica Montoya|title=Los Angeles's Historic Filipinotown|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQzdqdB3AIsC&pg=PA7|year=2009|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-6954-3|page=7}}</ref><ref name="PulidoBarraclough2012">{{cite book|author1=Laura Pulido|author2=Laura R. Barraclough|author3=Wendy Cheng|title=A People's Guide to Los Angeles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XI6c--mh-UC&pg=PA27|year=2012|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-27081-7|page=27}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Pyong Gap Min|title=Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PSYZMs8TzEC&pg=PA188|year=2006|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4129-0556-5|page=188}}</ref> particularly cities in the [[San Gabriel Valley]], including [[West Covina, California|West Covina]] and [[Rowland Heights, California|Rowland Heights]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Arax |first=Mark |date=5 April 1987 |title=San Gabriel Valley : Asian Influx Alters Life in Suburbia |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-05-mn-351-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=1 December 2014 |quote=Farther east—in Hacienda Heights, Rowland Heights, Walnut and West Covina—full-fledged Korean and Filipino communities that are among the largest in the state have taken root.}}</ref><ref name="OngBonacichCheng">{{cite book|author1=Paul M. Ong|author2=Edna Bonacich|author3=Lucie Cheng|author3-link=Lucie Cheng|title=The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Go_ZBQhMEvMC&pg=PA121|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=978-1-4399-0158-8|page=121}}</ref><ref name="ZhaoPhD2013">{{cite book|author1=Xiaojian Zhao|author2=Edward J.W. Park PhD|title=Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History &#91;3 volumes&#93;: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AxIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1039|date=26 November 2013|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-240-1|pages=1039–1042}}</ref> Due to West Covina's significant concentration of Filipino Americans, it was proposed a business district be designated a "Little Manila".<ref>{{cite news |last=Baer |first=Stephanie K. |date=30 August 2017 |title=In nod to thriving population, West Covina looks to designate Filipino business area as 'Little Manila' |url=https://www.sgvtribune.com/2017/02/10/in-nod-to-thriving-population-west-covina-looks-to-designate-filipino-business-area-as-little-manila/ |work=[[San Gabriel Valley Tribune]] |access-date=3 January 2018}}<br />{{cite news |last=Shyong |first=Frank |date=8 January 2018 |title=A diverse L.A. suburb finds love and songs of celebration in 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-crazy-west-covina-20171012-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=27 February 2018}}</ref> In 2014, about a quarter of Historic Filipinotown's population was Filipino, however the population did not have a significant "visible cultural impact";<ref>{{cite news |last=Trinidad |first=Elson |date=2 August 2012 |title=L.A.'s Historic Filipinotown Turns Ten: What's Changed? |url=http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/los-angeles-historic-filipinotown-turns-ten-whats-changed.html |newspaper=KCET |access-date=2 December 2014}}</ref> in 2007, Filipinos were 15% of the area's population.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wedner |first=Diane |date=18 March 2007 |title=A shared identity |url=https://www.latimes.com/la-re-guide18mar18-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=3 December 2014}}</ref> Within the city of Los Angeles, [[Eagle Rock, Los Angeles|Eagle Rock]] has over 6,000 Filipinos calling the neighborhood home;<ref>{{cite news |last=Gorman |first=Anna |date=22 August 2007 |title=Mall anchors thriving Filipino community |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-22-me-filipino22-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=15 July 2018}}<br />{{cite news |last=Barragan |first=Blanca |date=11 March 2016 |title=Eagle Rock's Philippine Village to Make Way for Little Houses |url=https://la.curbed.com/2016/3/11/11199056/eagle-rock-philippine-village-development |work= [[Curbed Los Angeles]] |access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> additionally, as of 2000 the largest source of foreign-born individuals was the Philippines.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |url=http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/eagle-rock/ |title=Eagle Rock |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2018 |access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> [[Panorama City, Los Angeles|Panorama City]] is another Los Angeles neighborhood with a noticeable Filipino population.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ramirez |first=Flory |date=11 September 2017 |title=Panorama City: Latinos and Filipinos |url=https://medium.com/@FloryRamirez/panorama-city-filipinos-and-latinos-7b02126d3236 |work=Medium |access-date=15 July 2018}}<br />{{cite news |last=Azores-Gunter |first=Tania |date=7 December 1992 |title=In The Neighborhood : FILIPINO-AMERICANS: Getting It Together, Raising Their Profile |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-07-me-1133-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=15 July 2018}}<br />{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Panorama City |url=http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/panorama-city/ |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2018 |access-date=15 July 2018}}<br />{{cite report |last1=Leong |first1=Anthony |last2=Harrington |first2=Sherry |last3=Kwok |first3=Jae |date=12 November 2004 |title=The Filipino Culture in the San Fernando Valley |url=http://www.csun.edu/~smr78195/aas345/report/fall04/filipinosfv.htm |publisher=[[California State University, Northridge]] |access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> In 2010, 32.4% of Asians in [[La Puente, California|La Puente]] were foreign-born Filipino.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Merlin Chowkwanyun |authorlink1=Merlin Chowkwanyun |author2=Jordan Segall |date=24 August 2012 |title=The Rise of the Majority-Asian Suburb |url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/demographics/the-rise-of-the-majority-asian-suburb-20120824 |newspaper=[[National Journal]] |agency=Atlantic Cities |access-date=1 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210075837/http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/demographics/the-rise-of-the-majority-asian-suburb-20120824 |archive-date=10 December 2014}}</ref> Other significant concentrations of Filipino Americans in Los Angeles County are in [[Carson, California|Carson]],<ref name="Nadal2011-1"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Darryl V. Caterine|title=Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites: Identity, Ethnicity, and Tradition in the Modern Church|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ENZ_WUdI4QoC&pg=PA43|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-34011-X|page=43}}<br />{{cite book|author1=Florante Peter Ibanez|author2=Roselyn Estepa Ibanez|title=Filipinos in Carson and the South Bay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZ6tLcm9yK4C&pg=PA8|year=2009|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-7036-5|page=8}}<br />{{cite news |last=Ochoa |first=Cecile Caguingin |date=3 November 2013 |title=Carson, California commemoration caps Fil-Am history month |url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/89415/carson-california-commemoration-caps-fil-am-history-month/ |newspaper=Inquirer |access-date=1 December 2014 |quote=After all, it is reputed to be the fourth city in the US with the highest percentage of Filipinos–approximately 20,000 out of its total 92,000 residents.}}<br />{{cite news |last=Texeira |first=Erin |date=27 November 2000 |title=Carson, a Model of Multiracial Politics, Hit by Discord |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-27-me-57847-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=1 December 2014 |quote= In recent decades, Filipino newcomers have arrived at a rapid rate, now making up about 20% of Carson's population and 24% of the teens at the high school, according to city estimates.}}</ref> where "[[Larry Itliong]] Day" was dedicated,<ref>{{cite book|author1=Xiaojian Zhao|author2=Edward J.W. Park PhD|title=Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History &#91;3 volumes&#93;: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AxIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA578|date=26 November 2013|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-240-1|page=578}}</ref> [[Cerritos, California|Cerritos]],<ref name="OngBonacichCheng"/><ref name="ZhaoPhD2013"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Marich|title=Marketing to Moviegoers: A Handbook of Strategies Used by Major Studios and Independents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZ7cAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA267|date=18 April 2005|publisher=[[CRC Press]]|isbn=978-1-136-06862-1|page=267}}<br />{{cite book|author1=Rhonda Phillips|author2=Robert H. Pittman|title=An Introduction to Community Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gw2UAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA337|date=2 December 2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-97722-1|page=337}}<br />{{cite book|author=Rhacel Salazar Parrenas|title=The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bq_A_Tm-JdUC&pg=PA96|date=10 August 2008|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-6789-4|page=96}}</ref> and [[Glendale, California|Glendale]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Levine |first=Brittany |date=26 April 2012 |title=Filipinos on the rise in Glendale, Census shows |url=http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2012-04-26/news/tn-818-0426-filipinos-on-the-rise-in-glendale-census-shows_1_local-filipino-community-glendale-memorial-hospital-census-data | work=[[Glendale News-Press]] |access-date=20 March 2017 |archive-date=21 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321083004/http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2012-04-26/news/tn-818-0426-filipinos-on-the-rise-in-glendale-census-shows_1_local-filipino-community-glendale-memorial-hospital-census-data |url-status=dead}}<br />{{cite news |last=Levine |first=Brittany |date=26 April 2012 |title=Glendale sees rise in Filipino population |url=http://www.latimes.com/tn-gnp-0427-city-sees-shifts-in-population-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=20 March 2017}}<br />{{cite news |last=Levine |first=Brittany |date=14 October 2013 |title=Glendale acknowledges its Filipino population |url=http://www.latimes.com/tn-gnp-city-acknowledges-its-filipino-population-20131014-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=20 March 2017}}</ref> [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] also has a sizable and growing Filipino population,<ref>{{cite news |title=Asian Population in Orange County |author=Kathie Bozanich |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-16-me-1456-story.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=16 June 1991 |access-date=15 October 2012}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://www.anaheim.net/docs_agend/AnaheimProfileII.pdf |title=Census 2000 Demographic Profile II |date=August 2012 |work=Center for Demographic Research |publisher=City of Anaheim |access-date=15 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207231755/http://www.anaheim.net/docs_agend/AnaheimProfileII.pdf |archive-date=7 December 2012}}<br />{{cite news |title=O.C.'s top 10 immigrant populations |url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/survey-335971-born-foreign.html?pic=10 |newspaper=Orange County Register |date=18 January 2012 |access-date=15 October 2012}}</ref> whose population grew by 178% in the 1980s;<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Asian Population in Orange County |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-16-me-1456-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=16 June 1991 |access-date=9 December 2014}}</ref> by 2018 the population was estimated to be 89,000.<ref>{{cite news |last=Vo |first=Thy |date=29 January 2018 |title=Report: Asian Americans, Now One Fifth of OC's Population, Are More Complex Than You Think |url=https://voiceofoc.org/2018/01/report-asian-americans-now-one-fifth-of-ocs-population-are-more-complex-than-you-think/ |work=[[Voice of OC]] |location=Santa Ana, California |access-date=1 February 2018}}</ref> The [[Inland Empire]] also has a population of Filipinos, with an estimated 59,000 living in the region in 2003, a hundred years after the first Filipinos arrived in the area to attend [[Riverside Polytechnic High School|Riverside High School]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.asianamericanriverside.ucr.edu/NotableAsianAmericans/Filipinos/index.html |title=Filipina/os in Riverside |last=Trajano |first=Christian Arquillo |website=Asian American Riverside |publisher=[[University of California, Riverside]] |access-date=3 January 2018 |archive-date=18 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518140604/http://www.asianamericanriverside.ucr.edu/NotableAsianAmericans/Filipinos/index.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> of those about 2,400 lived in [[Coachella Valley]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Brambila |first=Nicole C. |date=30 November 2009 |title=A 'hidden minority' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23518756/the_desert_sun/ |work=[[The Desert Sun]] |location=Palm Springs, California |access-date=10 April 2019}}</ref> By the early 2010s estimates were there were around 90,000 Filipinos living in the region—the largest group with Asian ancestry in the area.<ref>{{cite news |last=Olson |first=David |date=7 October 2014 |title=Asian-American community fastest growing group in Inland Empire, nation |url=https://www.pe.com/2014/10/07/asian-american-community-fastest-growing-group-in-inland-empire-nation/ |work=[[Press-Enterprise]] |location=Riverside County |access-date=3 January 2018}}</ref> [[West Long Beach]] also has a large Filipino American population.

[[File:Elderly evicted tenants of the International Hotel in San Francisco - 4 August 1977.jpg|thumb|alt=Photograph of two elderly Filipino tenants who were evicted from the International Hotel in San Francisco| Elderly tenants who were evicted from the [[International Hotel (San Francisco)|International Hotel]] in San Francisco during the dawn hours of 4 August 1977]] One of the earliest records of a Filipino settling in the San Francisco Bay Area occurred in the mid-19th century, when a Filipino immigrant and his [[Miwok]] wife settled in [[Lairds Landing, California|Lairds Landing]] on the [[Marin County, California|Marin County]] coast;<ref name="Sobredo1999">{{cite web |url=http://www.csus.edu/aas/sobredo/Filipinos_in_SF_Bay.html |title=Filipino Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stockton, and Seattle |last1=Sobredo |first1=James |date=July 1999 |website=Asian American Studies |publisher=[[California State University, Sacramento]] |access-date=28 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229002106/http://www.csus.edu/aas/sobredo/Filipinos_in_SF_Bay.html |archive-date=29 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfnps.org/download_product/2833/0 |title=Tomales Bay Environmental History and Historic Resource Study |author=Christy Avery |year=2009 |website=Point Reyes National Seashore |publisher=[[United States Department of the Interior]] |access-date=28 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915210847/http://www.sfnps.org/download_product/2833/0 |archive-date=15 September 2014 |quote=Harlan's great-grandparents, Filipino immigrant Domingo Felix and his Coast Miwok wife Euphrasia, probably moved to Laird's Landing around 1861.465}} [https://data.doi.gov/dataset/tomales-bay-environmental-history-and-historic-resource-study-point-reyes-national-seashor-4522d Alt URL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228235415/https://data.doi.gov/dataset/tomales-bay-environmental-history-and-historic-resource-study-point-reyes-national-seashor-4522d |date=28 December 2014}}</ref> many [[Coast Miwok]] trace their lineage to this couple.<ref name="Sobredo1999"/><ref>{{cite news |author=Alfred A. Yuson |title=Fil-Am memoirs: A multicolored fabric |url=http://www.philstar.com/arts-and-culture/159884/fil-am-memoirs-multicolored-fabric |newspaper=[[The Philippine Star]] |date=6 May 2002 |access-date=28 December 2014 |quote=The Filipino experience in California is a multiracial one, which has its roots in the 1830 marriage of a Filipino named Domingo Felix and his wife Euphrasia, a Coast Miwok. They were married in Point Reyes and settled at Laird's Landing. Today nearly all the Coast Miwoks are part Filipino...}}</ref> Significant migration began in the early 20th century, including upper-class mestizo businessmen, mariners, and students (known as [[pensionados]]).<ref name="Society2011">{{cite book|author=Filipino American National Historical Society|title=Filipinos in San Francisco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MO06JgWSYGsC&pg=PA7|date=14 February 2011|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-2524-8|pages=7–10}}</ref> Another group of Filipinos who immigrated to the Bay Area was war brides, many of whom married African-American "[[buffalo soldiers]]".<ref name="LuluguisenGaledo2008">{{cite book|author1=Evelyn Luluguisen|author2=Lillian Galedo|title=Filipinos in the East Bay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m4cagVAo5D0C&pg=PA7|year=2008|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-5832-5|pages=7–10}}</ref> Additionally, otherOther immigrants came through the U.S. Military, some through the [[Presidio of San Francisco]], and others as [[migrant workers]] on their way to points inland; many of these Filipinos would settle down permanently in the Bay Area, establishing [[Kearny Street|"Manilatown" on Kearny Street]] (next to [[Chinatown, San Francisco|Chinatown]]).<ref name="Society2011"/> At its largest size, "Manilatown" was home to at least 10,000,<ref name="RAlvarado2013"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Benito Vergara|title=Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtM9UK0_DAkC&pg=PA23|year=2009|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=978-1-59213-664-3|page=23|chapter=Little Manila|quote=A "real" Manilatown on Kearny Street in San Francisco, with barbershops, hotels, restaurants and clubs-and, at its height, 10,000 Filipinos-did exist just south of Chinatown until 10 blocks' worth was swallowed up by the [[Financial District, San Francisco|Financial District]] in the late '60s.}}<br />{{cite news |author=Patricia Yollin |title=Bill Sorro has passed on, but his monument is the International Hotel |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bill-Sorro-has-passed-on-but-his-monument-is-the-2521210.php |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=25 September 2007 |access-date=31 December 2014 |quote=It was a haven for between 10,000 and 30,000 immigrants from the Philippines, mostly laborers, migrant farm workers, domestic servants and merchant marines.}}<br />{{cite book|author1=Marjorie Ford|author2=Elizabeth Schave Sills|title=Community Matters: A Reader for Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BToQKeEkbwC|date=July 2004|publisher=[[Longman|Pearson/Longman]]|isbn=978-0-321-20783-8|page=409}}</ref> the last of whom were evicted in August 1977 from the [[International Hotel (San Francisco)|International Hotel]].<ref name="RAlvarado2013">{{cite news |author=Rhys Alvarado |title=Manilatown: An SF neighborhood that disappeared |url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/manilatown-an-sf-neighborhood-that-disappeared/Content?oid=2632728 |newspaper=[[San Francisco Examiner]] |date=24 November 2013 |access-date=26 December 2014 |archive-date=27 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227092324/http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/manilatown-an-sf-neighborhood-that-disappeared/Content?oid=2632728 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="BrookCarlsson1998-285"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Estella Habal|title=San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWhp5kLHkbUC|date=28 June 2007|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=978-1-59213-447-2}}</ref> After 1965, Filipinos from the Philippines began immigrating to San Francisco, concentrating in the [[South of Market, San Francisco|South of Market]] neighbourhood.<ref name="BrookCarlsson1998-285"/> In 1970, the [[San Francisco Bay Area|San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area]] had the largest population of Filipinos of any metropolitan area in the [[continental United States]]—44,326.<ref name="Table41-1970"/> Two other nearby metropolitan areas also had a population of Filipinos greater than 5,000 in 1970, [[San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area|San Jose]] (6,768), and [[Salinas, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area|Salinas-Monterey]] (6,147).<ref name="Table41-1970"/> Due to a change in the ethnic make up of the [[Neighborhoods in San Francisco#Yerba Buena|Yerba Buena]] neighborhood, and with the construction of the [[Jose Rizal|Dimasalang]] House in 1979, four street names were changed to honor notable Filipinos.<ref name="BrookCarlsson1998-285"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.philippinessanfrancisco.org/news/2770/301/THE-PHILIPPINES-IN-SAN-FRANCISCO/d,phildet/ |title=The Philippines in San Francisco |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=9 July 2012 |website=Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco |publisher=Philippines |access-date=26 December 2014 |archive-date=26 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226214629/http://www.philippinessanfrancisco.org/news/2770/301/THE-PHILIPPINES-IN-SAN-FRANCISCO/d,phildet/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> By 1990, 30% of the population in South of Market was Filipino American.<ref name="BrookCarlsson1998-285">{{cite book|author1=James Brook|author2=Chris Carlsson|author3=Nancy J. Peters|author4=James Sobredo|title=Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/reclaimingsanfra00/page/273|date=1 January 1998|publisher=[[City Lights Books]]|isbn=978-0-87286-335-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/reclaimingsanfra00/page/273 273–286]|chapter=From Manila Bay to Daly City: Filipinos in San Francisco}}</ref>

In 2020, there were 383,200 Filipino Americans in Hawaii.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://public.tableau.com/shared/QKK6KQX72?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link&:embed=y |title=Detailed Asian Alone or in Any Combination Groups in Hawaii |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=21 September 2023 |website=Detailed Races and Ethnicities in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2020 Census |publisher=United States Department of Commerce |access-date=25 October 2023}}</ref> A quarter of the population of Hawaii are Filipino Americans.<ref>{{cite news |last=Natividad |first=Ivan |date=9 October 2023 |title=Why are there so many people from the Philippines in Hawaii? Colonialism. |url=https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/10/09/why-are-there-so-many-people-from-the-philippines-in-hawaii |work=Berkeley News |location=Berkeley, CA |access-date=25 October 2023}}</ref><ref name=Lahaina2023>{{cite news |last1=Yam |first1=Kimmy |last2=Venkatraman |first2=Sakshi |date=7 September 2023 |title=Filipinos in Lahaina say they've been overlooked in wildfire response |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/filipinos-maui-hawaii-wildfires-rcna102375 |publisher=NBC News |location=New York City |access-date=25 October 2023}}</ref> In 2019 Filipino Americans arewere the second largest ethnicity in Hawaii, after European Americans.<ref name=May2022HBM /> Despite Filipino Americans in Hawaii havehaving thea secondslightly highesthigher median family income, ofthe anyFilipino ethnicPer groupCapita Income ($27,738) afterin JapaneseHawaii is significantly lower than the total population ($36,989). In addition to this Filipino Americans in Hawaii, yetwere theysignificantly areless notlikely oneto attain a bachelor's degree. There is no indication of socioeconomic mobility among the dominantsubordinate ethnicitiesgroups withinlike theFilipinos, socioeconomicSamoans, hierarchyHawaiians. inFilipino HawaiiAmericans, and other immigrant minorities have been restricted access to opportunities. This thereby maintains them in their subjugated position in low-paying service and other blue-collar jobs that preclude their socioeconomic mobility<ref name=May2022HBM /> The majority of Filipino Americans in Hawaii live in multigenerational households; and nearly a third work in the service industry.<ref name=May2022HBM>{{cite magazine |last=Fujii-Oride |first=Noelle |date=11 May 2022 |title=Here's Which Ethnic Groups Make the Most Money in Hawai'i |url=https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/income-by-ethnic-group-hawaii-wealth-money/ |magazine=Hawaii Business Magazine |location=Honolulu, Hawaii |publisher=PacificBasin Communications |access-date=25 October 2023}}</ref> During the first year of the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]], Filipino Americans were about a fifth of all COVID-19 cases in Hawaii.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Joshua J. Quint |author2=Miriam E. Van Dyke |author3=Hailey Maeda |author4=J. Keʻalohilani Worthington |author5=May Rose Dela Cruz |author6=Joseph Keaweʻaimoku Kaholokula |author7=Chantelle Eseta Matagi |author8=Catherine M. Pirkle |author9=Emily K. Roberson |author10=Tetine Sentell |author11=Lisa Watkins-Victorino |author12=Courtni A. Andrews |author13=Katherine E. Center |author14=Renee M. Calanan |author15=Kristie E.N. Clarke |author16=Delight E. Satter |author17=Ana Penman-Aguilar |author18=Erin M. Parker |author19=Sarah Kemble |date=17 September 2021 |title=Disaggregating Data to Measure Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes and Guide Community Response – Hawaii, March 1, 2020 – February 28, 2021 |journal=Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |volume=70 |issue=37 |pages=1267–1273 |doi=10.15585/mmwr.mm7037a1 |pmid=34529634 |pmc=8445382}}</ref> [[2023 Hawaii wildfires]] on Maui significantly impacted the Filipino American community in Lahaina, where 40% of the community's population before the wildfires were Filipino Americans.<ref name=Lahaina2023 /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sinco Kelleher |first1=Jennifer |last2=Caina Calvan |first2=Bobby |date=10 September 2023 |title=Lahaina's fire-stricken Filipino residents are key to tourism and local culture. Will they stay? |url=https://apnews.com/article/lahaina-maui-wildfire-filipino-housekeepers-tourism-5a06eed3e5ebe7466d62b5a9e2f214a0 |work=Associated Press News |access-date=25 October 2023}}<br/>{{cite news |last=List |first=Medeleine |date=28 September 2023 |title=Lahaina's Filipino Community Mourns The Loss of 9 Family Members |url=https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/09/lahainas-filipino-community-mourns-the-loss-of-9-family-members/ |work=Civil Beat |location=Honolulu, Hawaii |access-date=25 October 2023}}<br/>{{cite news |last=Lee-Brago |first=Pia |date=16 August 2023 |title=Filipinos affected by Hawaii wildfires unlikely to request repatriation |url=https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/08/16/2288963/filipinos-affected-hawaii-wildfires-unlikely-request-repatriation |work=The Philippine Star |location=Metro Manila, Philippines |access-date=25 October 2023}}<br/>{{cite news |last1=Cruz Churma |first1=Rose |last2=Quinabo |first2=Edwin |date=8 October 2023 |title=New Assistance Available for Maui Fire Victims, Hawaii's Filipino Community Rally to Offer Support |url=https://thefilipinochronicle.com/2023/10/08/new-assistance-available-for-maui-fire-victims-hawaiis-filipino-community-rally-to-offer-support/ |work=Hawaii Filipino Chronicle |access-date=25 October 2023}}</ref>

The first known Filipinos to arrive in [[Clark County, Nevada|Clark County]] arrived from California during the [[Great Depression]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jerry L. Simich|author2=Thomas C. Wright|title=The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Af4hkJsnaKwC&pg=PA226|year=2005|publisher=University of Nevada Press|isbn=978-0-87417-616-2|page=226}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Filipinos arriving in the mid-20th century settled primarily around Fifth and Sixth Streets, and an enclave remains in this area.<ref name="SimichWright2005-229">{{cite book|author1=Jerry L. Simich|author2=Thomas C. Wright|title=The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Af4hkJsnaKwC&pg=PA229|year=2005|publisher=University of Nevada Press|isbn=978-0-87417-616-2|page=229}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Beginning in 1995, five to six thousand Filipinos from Hawaii began to migrate to [[Las Vegas]].<ref name="SimichWright2005-229"/> In 2005, Filipinos were the largest ethnic group of Asian Americans in Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Art D. Clarito|author2=Heather Lawler|author3=Gary B. Palmer|editor=Jerry L. Simich|editor2=Thomas C. Wright|title=The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Af4hkJsnaKwC&pg=PA220|year=2005|publisher=University of Nevada Press|isbn=978-0-87417-616-2|page=220|chapter=The Filipinos}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> In 2013, according to the American Community Survey, 2011–2013, there were an estimated 114,989 Filipinos (+/-5,293), including multiracial Filipinos, in Clark County;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_3YR/S0201/0500000US32003/popgroup~038 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212085235/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_3YR/S0201/0500000US32003/popgroup~038 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-02-12 |title=2011–2013 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2013 |website=American FactFinder |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=6 December 2014}}</ref> according to other sources, there were about 140,000 Filipinos living in Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Las Vegas Filipino-Americans on Typhoon Recovery |url=http://www.knpr.org/son/archive/detail2.cfm?SegmentID=10672 |newspaper=[[KNPR]] |date=12 November 2013 |access-date=5 December 2014 |quote=Approximately 140,000 Filipinos live in Las Vegas, many of whom have friends and family affected by the storm. |archive-date=11 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211133831/http://www.knpr.org/son/archive/detail2.cfm?SegmentID=10672 |url-status=dead}}<br />{{cite news |author=Tom Ragan |title=Filipino-Americans in Las Vegas hear from loved ones back home |url=http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/filipino-americans-las-vegas-hear-loved-ones-back-home |newspaper=[[Las Vegas Review-Journal]] |date=9 November 2013 |access-date=6 December 2014 |quote=About 140,000 Filipino-Americans live in Las Vegas, and many of them have family and friends in the western-Pacific archipelago.}}<br />{{cite news |author=Bev Llorente |title=FilAms in Nevada Worry About Kin in Visayas |url=http://www.balitangamerica.tv/filams-in-nevada-worry-about-kin-in-visayas/ |newspaper=ABS-CBN North American News Bureau |date=14 November 2013 |access-date=6 December 2013 |quote=More than 140,000 Filipino-Americans live in southern Nevada.}}</ref> According to ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'' in 2014, more than 90,000 [[Philippine national|Filipino nationals]] resided in the Las Vegas area.<ref>{{cite news |author=Jerry Izenberg |title=Manny Pacquiao's trainer: Chris Algieri doesn't hit hard enough to 'break an egg' |url=http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/11/manny_pacquiaos_trainer_chris_algieri_doesnt_hit_hard_enough_to_break_an_egg.html |newspaper=[[The Star-Ledger]] |date=14 November 2014 |access-date=6 December 2014 |quote=There are more than 90,000 Filipino nationals living in Greater Las Vegas.}}</ref> By 2015, Filipino Americans are more than half of the population of Asian Americans in Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ghimire |first1=Saruna |last2=Cheong |first2=Prescott |last3=Sagadraca |first3=Lawrence |last4=Chien |first4=Lung-Chang |last5=Sy |first5=Francisco S. |date=27 November 2018 |title=A Health Needs Assessment of the Filipino American Community in the Greater Las Vegas Area |journal=Health Equity |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=334–438 |doi=10.1089/heq.2018.0042 |pmid=30506015 |pmc=6263856 |quote=In total, Filipino Americans represent almost 3.5% of the entire population of Las Vegas and over half of the Asian American population.}}</ref> In 2024 there were about 178,655 Filipino Americans in the state, there is a trend of Filipino Americans relocating from Hawaii and California to Nevada due to rising cost of living and housing prices.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-02 |title=Why the Harris campaign has been aggressively courting Filipino Americans in Nevada |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/kamala-harris-filipino-americans-nevada-rcna173444 |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref><ref>Nevada.pdf</ref>

Filipino migration to the Chicago area began in 1906 with the immigration of pensionados,<ref>{{cite book |title=The new Chicago: a social and cultural analysis |last=Koval |first=John Patrick |author2=Larry Bennett |author3=Michael I. J. Bennett |author4=Fassil Demissie |author5=Roberta Garner |author6=Kiljoong Kim |year=2006 |publisher=Temple University Press |location=Philadelphia|isbn= 978-1-59213-088-7 |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NtKHGOCFB10C&pg=PA152}}</ref> consisting predominantly of men. A significant number of them married non-Filipinos, mainly [[Eastern Europe|Eastern]] or [[Southern European]] women.<ref name="OnoPosadas2008">{{cite book|author1=Kent A. Ono|author2=Barbara M. Posadas|title=A Companion to Asian American Studies|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wAHjXRHN_gC&pg=PA226|date=15 April 2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4051-3709-6|pages=226–234|chapter=Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago's Filipino American Community since 1925*}}</ref> At one point, 300 of these early Chicago Filipinos worked for the [[Pullman Company]], and overall tended to be more educated than most men of their age.<ref name="OnoPosadas2008"/> During the 1930s, they were predominantly in the [[Near South Side, Chicago|Near South Side]] until the 1965 immigration reforms.<ref name="Chicago I Cutler">{{cite book |title=Chicago, metropolis of the mid-continent |last=Cutler |first=Irving |year=2006 |publisher=[[Southern Illinois University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8093-2702-7 |page=191 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TbLkURD3SesC&pg=PA191}}</ref> In 1930, there were 1,796 Filipinos living in Chicago. The population decreased to 1,740 in 1940 with men outnumbering women 25:1.<ref name="OnoPosadas2008"/> In the 1960s, there were 3,587 Filipinos in Illinois, the population increased to 12,654 in 1970 and 43,889 in 1980, growing at a pace greater than the national average, and made up largely of professionals and their families.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Elliott Robert Barkan|author2=Barbara M. Posados|author3=Roland L. Guyotte|title=Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration &#91;4 volumes&#93;|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SOvskj0HNt8C&pg=PT1410|date=17 January 2013|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-220-3|page=1410|chapter=Filipinos and Filipino Americans, 1940-Present}}</ref> By the 1970s, Filipinas outnumbered Filipinos, with a total of 9,497 Filipinos in the Chicago Area;<ref name="AAI2011BP" /> the total population of Filipinos in Illinois was 12,654, of which 57% were college graduates.<ref name="Shepard1974"/> In 1990, Filipinos were the largest population of Asian Americans in Illinois, with a population of 64,224.<ref name="Atlas of American Diversity"/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Elliott Robert Barkan|author2=Jon Cruz|title=A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/nationofpeopless00bark/page/213|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29961-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/nationofpeopless00bark/page/213 213]|chapter=Filipinos}}</ref> Outside the Chicago metropolitan area, there were fewer Filipinos.<ref name="BarkanDinerKrautGuyotte2007"/> For instance in the state capital of [[Springfield, Illinois]], there were only 171 in 2000.<ref name="BarkanDinerKrautGuyotte2007">{{cite book|author1=Elliott Barkan|author2=Hasia R. Diner|author3=Alan Kraut |author4=Barbara M. Posadas |author5=Roland L. Guyotte|title=From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U. S. in a Global Era|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rodTDgem8oYC&pg=PA143|date=1 December 2007|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-9120-2|pages=143–162|chapter=Filipino Families in the Land of Lincoln}}</ref>

In 1970, there were 14,279 Filipinos in [[New York State]].<ref name="Shepard1974"/> InFilipinos 2004in New York City were more educated than the total population and Non-Hispanic Whites, 84%but oflower Filipinosincome inthen NewNon-Hispanic YorkWhites, hadthis obtainedis seen as they had a collegeper Capita Income of education$56,873 comparedwhich towas 43%significantly oflower allthan $81,361 for the White population. Both Filipino Americansmen inand women had higher earnings than the Unitedtotal population but significantly lower earnings than StatesWhites.<ref>{{Cite nameweb |title="Nadal2011Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=American%20Community%20Survey&t=001:016:019:022:023:3767:3768:3797&g=160XX00US3651000 |access-1"date=2024-12-02 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref> In 2010, there were 104,287 single-race Filipino Americans living in New York State.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/0400000US36|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212092238/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/0400000US36|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 February 2020|title=Geography – New York Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=8 December 2014}}</ref> In 2011, five percent (84,400) of all Filipino immigrants in the United States lived in New York.<ref name="MPIjun2013"/> By 2013, an estimated over 120,000+ single- and multi-racial Filipino Americans lived in New York State.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_1YR/S0201/0400000US36/popgroup~038|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212082348/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_1YR/S0201/0400000US36/popgroup~038|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 February 2020|title=Selected Population Profile in the United States 2013 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=8 December 2014}}</ref>

In the 1970s and 1980s, Filipinos in New York and New Jersey had a higher socioeconomiceducational and social status than the mainly working-class Filipinos elsewhere in the US; more than half of Filipino immigrants to the metropolitan area were healthcare or other highly trained [[professional]]s, in contrast to established working-class Filipino American populations elsewhere.<ref>{{cite book|author=Larry L. Naylor|title=Cultural Diversity in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HhUKBb807GsC&pg=PA189|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-89789-479-1|page=189|quote=The overall socioeconomic status of Filipino-Americans as indicated by their educational achievement, occupational distribution, and income levels may obscure significant disparities within the population. Filipinos in New York and New Jersey have a much higher socioeconomic status than that of other coutnerparts in Hawaii (Liu et al. 1988:509). More than two-thirds of Filipino immigrants in New York and New Jersey came in 1973 and 1979 and 50% who arrived in 1985 were health and other highly trained professionals, especially medical doctors and nurses, in the Philippines. In contrast, Hawaii Filipinos remain very much a working-class group with only limited upward social mobility, especially into managerial and professional positions since the beginning of the 1970s (Okamura 1990).}}</ref> It should however be mentioned that in 2023, Filipinos in New Jersey had lower earnings than South and East Asian groups and well as Non-Hispanic Whites. It should also be noted that in New York City, Filipinos had lower earnings than Non-Hispanic Whites.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=American%20Community%20Survey&t=001:019:3764:3781:3797:451&g=040XX00US34_160XX00US3651000 |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref> The high percentage of healthcare professionals continues; in 2013, 30% of Filipinos were nurses or other professionals in the healthcare industry.<ref name="Roberts2013_136-137"/> In 1970, the New York metropolitan area had the largest concentration of Filipinos (12,455) east of the Rocky Mountains, and the fifth largest population of Filipinos of all metropolitan areas in the United States.<ref name="Table41-1970"/> In 1990, more Filipinos lived in urban New York (60,376), than in suburban New York (44,203).<ref name="LZAapr2002"/>{{sub|Table 1a}} In 2008, the New York tri-state metropolitan area was home to 215,000 Filipinos.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/27Rnurses.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=philippine&st=nyt&oref=slogin |title=Filipino Nurses, Healers in Trouble |author=Joseph Berger |journal=The New York Times |date=27 January 2008 |access-date=2 June 2008}}</ref> In 2010, according to the 2010 United States Census, there were 217,349 Filipino Americans, including multiracial Filipino Americans, living in the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, (NY-NJ-PA) metropolitan area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF2/SF2DP1/310M100US35620/popgroup~038 |title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2010 |website=2010 Census Summary File 2 |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=23 December 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141223214718/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF2/SF2DP1/310M100US35620/popgroup~038 |archive-date=23 December 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011, eight percent of all Filipino immigrants in the United States lived in the New York City metropolitan region,<ref name="MPIjun2013"/> and it had become a new destination for Filipino immigrants.<ref name="PortesRumbaut2014"/> In 2012, a Census-estimated 235,222 single-race and multiracial Filipino Americans lived in the broader New York-Newark-Bridgeport, New York-New Jersey-Connecticut-Pennsylvania [[Combined Statistical Area#List of Combined Statistical Areas|Combined Statistical Area]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/12_1YR/S0201/330M100US408/popgroup~038|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212083622/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/12_1YR/S0201/330M100US408/popgroup~038|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 February 2020|title=Selected Population Profile in the United States 2012 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=9 December 2014}}</ref> By 2013 Census estimates, the [[New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA MSA|New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania MSA]] was estimated to be home to 224,266 Filipino Americans, 88.5% (about 200,000) of them single-race Filipinos.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_1YR/S0201/310M200US35620/popgroup~038|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212083159/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_1YR/S0201/310M200US35620/popgroup~038|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 February 2020|title=Selected Population Profile in the United States 2013 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=9 December 2014}}</ref> In 2013, 4,098 Filipinos legally immigrated to the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA core based statistical area;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2013/LPR/immsuptable2d.xls |title=Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Leading Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) of Residence and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2013 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2013 |website=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2013 |publisher=[[Department of Homeland Security]] |access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> in 2012, this number was 4,879;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2012/LPR/immsuptable2d.xls |title=Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status by Leading Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) of Residence and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2012 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2012 |website=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2012 |publisher=[[Department of Homeland Security]] |access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> 4,177 in 2011;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/yearbook/2011/immsuptable2d.xls |title=Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status by Leading Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) of Residence and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2011 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2011 |website=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2011 |publisher=[[Department of Homeland Security]] |access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> 4,047 in 2010,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/yearbook/2010/immsuptable2d.xls |title=Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status by Leading Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) of Residence and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2010 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2010 |website=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2010 |publisher=[[Department of Homeland Security]] |access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> 4,400 in 2009,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/yearbook/2009/immsuptable2d.xls |title=Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status by Leading Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) of Residence and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2009 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2009 |website=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2009 |publisher=[[Department of Homeland Security]] |access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> and 5,985 in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/yearbook/2005/ImmSupTable2fy05D.xls |title=Legal Permanent Resident Flow by Leading Core-Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) of Residence and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2005 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2005 |website=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2005 |publisher=[[Department of Homeland Security]] |access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> Little Manilas have emerged in the New York City metropolitan area, in [[Woodside, Queens]];<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.philippineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Sanlahi_2009_01_June.pdf |title=Jollibee Brings the Buzz to Queens |newspaper=SANLAHI |date=June 2009 |access-date=26 December 2014 |quote=Woodside is the heart of Queens' very own Little Manila. It is known for its concentration of Filipinos. Of the 85,000 residents of Woodside, about 13,000 are of Filipino background. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227071546/http://www.philippineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Sanlahi_2009_01_June.pdf |archive-date=27 December 2014 |url-status=dead}}<br />{{cite news |last=Marquez |first=Liaa |date=19 January 2011 |title=Little Manila rises in New York City's Queens borough |url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/210966/pinoyabroad/little-manila-rises-in-new-york-city-s-queens-borough |newspaper=[[GMA News and Public Affairs|GMA News]] |access-date=3 December 2014 |quote=Previously an Irish neighborhood, Woodside has grown to be one of the most diverse areas in the city. Amid Mexican-, Indian-, and Korean-owned stores lies a hefty sampling of the Philippines. The area now serves as home to the rising population of Filipinos in the city.}}<br />{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nabe-manila-woodside-queens-surge-filipino-residents-call-roosevelt-ave-home-article-1.132729|title=Your nabe: Little Manila in Woodside Queens; Surge of Filipino residents call Roosevelt Ave. home|author=Nicole Lyn Pesce|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|date=26 June 2011|access-date=29 October 2014}}</ref> Jersey City, New Jersey;<ref name=JerseyCityLM>{{cite web|url=http://www.destinationjerseycity.com/plan-your-stay/itineraries/guide-to-little-manila/|title=Guide to Little Manila – Destination Jersey City|publisher=Jersey City Economic Development Corporation|access-date=29 October 2014}}</ref> and Bergenfield, New Jersey.<ref name=BergenfieldLittleManila/> In 2017, one quarter of Filipino American adults in the metropolitan area work in the medical field.<ref name=May2020ProPublica>{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Nina |last2=Yeung |last3=Chou |first3=Sophie |first2=Bernice |date=3 May 2020 |title="Similar to Times of War": The Staggering Toll of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/similar-to-times-of-war-the-staggering-toll-of-covid-19-on-filipino-health-care-workers |work=ProPublica |location=New York City |access-date=10 June 2020}}</ref>

Filipinos have resided in New York City since the 1920s.<ref name="EncNYC"/> In 1960, there were only 2,744 Filipinos in New York City.<ref>{{cite book|author=Pyong Gap Min|title=Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PSYZMs8TzEC&pg=PA2|year=2006|publisher=[[Sage Publications]]|isbn=978-1-4129-0556-5|page=2}}</ref> In 1990, there were 43,229 Filipinos increasing to around 54,993 in 2000.<ref name="EncNYC">{{cite book|author1=Kenneth T. Jackson|author2=Lisa Keller|author3=Nancy Flood|title=The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lI5ERUmHf3YC&pg=PT2105|date=1 December 2010|publisher=[[Yale University Press]]|isbn=978-0-300-18257-6|pages=2105–2106}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/demonyc.pdf |title=Demographic Characteristics – New York City |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=October 2004 |website=Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning |publisher=[[New York City|City of New York]] |access-date=23 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806191724/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/demonyc.pdf |archive-date=6 August 2015}}</ref> A profile of New York City's Filipino American population, based on an analysis of 1990 and 2000 U.S. census data, showed that Filipino New Yorkers surpassed non-Filipino New Yorkers as a whole in terms of income.<ref name="AAFNY2000">{{Cite web |url=http://www.aafny.org/cic/briefs/filipino.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725221521/http://www.aafny.org/cic/briefs/filipino.pdf |archive-date=25 July 2011 |title=Census Profile: New York City's Filipino American Population |publisher=[[Asian American Federation of New York]] |access-date=7 December 2014}}</ref> New York City was home to an estimated 82,313 Filipinos in 2011, representing a 7.7% increase from the estimated 77,191 in 2008.<ref name=NYCFilipinos1/> [[Median household income]] of Filipinos in New York City was $81,929 in 2013; 68% held a [[bachelor's degree]] or higher.<ref name=NYCFilipinos1/> The 2010 census reported the [[Borough (New York City)|borough]] of [[Queens]] was home to the largest concentration of Filipinos within New York City—<ref name="EncNYC"/> about 38,000 individuals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/0500000US36081 |title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2010 |website=2010 Demographic Profile Data |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=24 December 2014 |quote=Filipino – 38,163 – 1.7 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141225191036/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/0500000US36081 |archive-date=25 December 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011, an estimated 56% of New York City's Filipino population, or about 46,000, lived in Queens.<ref name=NYCFilipinos1>{{cite web|url=http://www.aafny.org/cic/briefs/filipino2013.pdf|title=Profile of New York City's Filipino Americans: 2013 Edition|publisher=[[Asian American Federation of New York]]|year=2013|access-date=8 December 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025507/http://www.aafny.org/cic/briefs/filipino2013.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2014, Filipinos remained the fourth-largest population of Asian Americans in New York City, behind [[Chinese Americans in New York City|Chinese]], [[Indians in the New York City metropolitan region|Indians]], and [[Korean Americans in New York City|Koreans]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sam Roberts|title=A History of New York in 101 Objects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGxNAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA289|date=23 September 2014|publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]]|isbn=978-1-4767-2880-3|page=289}}</ref> The annual Philippine Independence Day Parade is traditionally held on the first Sunday of June on [[Madison Avenue]] in [[Manhattan]].<ref name="EncNYC"/>

While Median Household Income for Filipino aloneAmericans washad aboveaa thehigher Medianmedian Householdannual Incomehousehold for Asiansincome, Non-Hispanic Whites and the general population, Per Capita Income for Filipino Americans was $47,819 which was lower than for all Asians ($55,561) and Non-Hispanic Whites ($50,675). Individual earnings for both Filipino Males and Females waswere significantly lower than for all Asians, suggesting multiple earners in a household.<ref>RISE Report_Nadal.pdf</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=S0201.&t=012:019:3797:451 |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref>.

Filipino Americans own a variety of businesses, making up 10.5% of all Asian owned businesses in the United States in 2007.<ref name="SBO2007Summary">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/econ/sbo/getsof.html?07asian |title=Survey of Business Owners – Asian-Owned Firms: 2007 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=29 September 2014 |websitetitle=Survey of Business Owners |publisher=United– StatesAsian-Owned CensusFirms: Bureau2007 |access-dateurl=6 December 2014https://www.census.gov/econ/sbo/getsof.html?07asian |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210014914/https://www.census.gov/econ/sbo/getsof.html?07asian |archive-date=10 December 2014 |access-date=6 December 2014 |website=Survey of Business Owners |publisher=United States Census Bureau}}</ref> In 2002, according to the [[United States Economic Census|Survey of Business Owners]], there were over 125,000 Filipino-owned businesses; this increased by 30.4% to over 163,000 in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |urlauthor=http://www2.census<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.gov/econ/sbo/07/final/tables/asian_table7.pdf--> |date=28 April 2011 |title=Table 7. Summary Statistics for Asian-Owned Firms by Detailed Group (Percent Changes): 2002 to 2007 |authorurl=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-linehttp://www2.-->census.gov/econ/sbo/07/final/tables/asian_table7.pdf |access-date=286 AprilDecember 20112014 |website=Survey of Business Owners |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=6 December 2014}}</ref> By then, 25.4% of these businesses were in the [[retail]] industry, 23% were in the [[health care]] and social assistance industries,<ref name="FOF2011">{{cite web |url=http://www2.census.gov/econ/sbo/07/final/charts/asian_chart4.pdf |title=Filipino-Owned Firms |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=28 April 2011 |title=Filipino-Owned Firms |url=http://www2.census.gov/econ/sbo/07/final/charts/asian_chart4.pdf |access-date=6 December 2014 |website=Survey of Business Owners |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=6 December 2014}}</ref> and they employed more than 142,000 people and generated almost $15.8 billion in revenue.<ref name="SBO2007Summary" /> Of those, just under three thousand (1.8% of all Filipino-owned businesses) were million dollar or more businesses. This means Filipino-owned businesses are significantly less likely to be million dollar or more than all Asians (5%).<ref name="SBO2007Summary" /><ref name="FOF2011" /> California had the largest number of Filipino-owned businesses, with the [[Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA MSA|Los Angeles metropolitan area]] having the largest number of any metropolitan area in the United States.<ref name="SBO2007Summary" />

The 1990 Census reports that Filipino Americans had the highest percentage of college educated individuals of any Asian American population.<ref name="NakanishiLai2003">{{cite book|editor1=Don T. Nakanishi|editor2=James S. Lai|author=Pei-te Lien|title=Asian American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGB8Z9wAQT4C&pg=PA198|year=2003|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7425-1850-6|page=198|chapter=Ethnicity and Adaption: Comparing Filipino, Koreans, and Vietnamese in Southern California}}</ref> Filipino Americans have some of the highesthigh educational attainment rates in the United States with 47.9% of all Filipino Americans over the age of 25 having a bachelor's degree in 2004, which correlates with rates observed in other Asian American subgroups.<ref name="ACS-05"/>{{su|p=fig.11}} In 2011, 61% of United States-born Filipino Americans had achieved an education level greater than a high school diploma.<ref name="MPIjun2013"/> The post-1965 wave of Filipino professionals immigrating to the U.S. to make up the education, healthcare, and [[information technology]] employee shortages also accounts for the high educational attainment rates.<ref name="AASAE2014-661"/><ref name="SI3W"/><ref name="MISapr2010"/> Second generationHowever Filipino Americans haveare trendedsignificantly less likely to haveattain a lowerGraduates educationaldegree achievement than their first generation parents.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aapr.hkspublications.org/2013/10/15/filipino-americans-and-educational-downward-mobility/ |title=Filipino Americans and Educational Downward Mobility |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=15 October 2023 |website=Asian American Policy Review |publisher=Harvard Kennedy School Student Publication |access-date=(11 October 2023 |archive-date=12 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231012215653/https://aapr.hkspublications.org/2013/10/15/filipino-americans-and-educational-downward-mobility/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Filipino Americans are 605%) less likelycompared to choosethe Science,total Technology,population Engineering and Maths(STEM14.3%) thanand otherall AsianAsians groups(6.6)%.<ref>{{Cite web |title=STEMExplore disparities among Asian AmericanCensus studentsData |url=https://wwwdata.buffalocensus.edugov/ubnow/stories/2021/09/asian-stem-disparitiestable?q=S0201.html&t=001:012:019:3797 |access-date=2024-1011-2208 |website=wwwdata.buffalocensus.edu |language=engov}}</ref>.

The significant drop in the percentage of Filipino nurses from the 1980s to 2000 is because of the increase in the number of countries recruiting Filipino nurses (European Union, the Middle East, Japan), as well as the increase in the number of other countries sending nurses to the United States.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Brush |first1=Barbara L. |last2=Sochalski |first2=Julie |last3=Berger |first3=Anne M. |date=May 2004 |title=Imported Care: Recruiting Foreign Nurses To U.S. Health Care Facilities |journal=[[Health Affairs]] |publisher=Project HOPE: The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=78–87 |doi=10.1377/hlthaff.23.3.78 |issn=1544-5208 |pmid=15160805 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Even with the significant drop, in 2005 Filipino American nurses made up 3.7% of the total United States nursing population, and were 40% of all foreign-trained nurses in the United States.<ref name="FilNurseChoy2014"/> The Philippines has the largest exporters of Nurses and this is something that can be traced back to US colonialism, as a result there is brain drain in the Philippine.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-21 |title=The Mass Emigration of Filipino Nurses to the United States |url=https://hir.harvard.edu/from-us-reign-to-brain-drain-the-mass-emigration-of-filipino-nurses-to-the-united-states/ |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=Harvard International Review |language=en}}</ref>