Census Bureau 2000, Koreans in the United States

Cities with significant Korean American populations represent

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with critical masses of

Korean Americans Korean Americans are Americans of Korean ancestry (mostly from South Korea). In 2015, the Korean-American community constituted about 0.56% of the United States population, or about 1.82 million people, and was the fifth-largest Asian American ...

in their total urban or suburban populations. Information is based on the 2005-2009

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or as specified in each table. The list includes those who have emigrated from

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

as well as Korean Americans of multiple generations. There are numbers of

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

ns living in the United States, despite North Korean citizens being unable to freely emigrate out of their country. As of 2009, Americans of Korean descent made up about 0.4% of the population, or 1,307,000 people. The three

metropolitan areas A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually com ...

with the highest Korean American populations as per the 2009

were the

Greater Los Angeles Greater Los Angeles is the second-largest metropolitan region in the United States with a population of 18.5 million in 2021, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino Coun ...

Combined Statistical Area Combined statistical area (CSA) is a United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (µSA) across the 50 US states and the territory of Puerto Ric ...

(300,000), the Greater New York Combined Statistical Area (200,000), and the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area (93,000).

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and the

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have the largest populations of Koreans outside of the Korean Peninsula. Among Korean Americans ''born in Korea'', the Los Angeles metropolitan area had 226,000 as of 2012; Greater New York (including

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) was home to 153,000 Korean-born Korean Americans; and metropolitan Washington, 60,000. By percentage, the Korean American population of

Bergen County Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

, in the New York City Metropolitan Area, was 6.3% by the

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, the highest of any county in the United States. In 2010, Bergen County, host to the county's highly ranked

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public high school as well as to the

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headquarters Headquarters (commonly referred to as HQ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States, the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the to ...

operations of South Korean

chaebol A chaebol (, ; ) is a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by an individual or family. A chaebol often consists of multiple diversified affiliates, controlled by a person or group whose power over the group often exc ...

s including

Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...

LG Corp LG Corporation (or LG Group) (), formerly Lucky-Goldstar from 1983 to 1995 (Korean: ''Leokki Geumseong''; ), is a South Korean multinational conglomerate founded by Koo In-hwoi and managed by successive generations of his family. It is ...

, and

Hanjin Shipping Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd. was a South Korean integrated logistics and container transport company. Prior to its liquidation, Hanjin Shipping was South Korea's largest container line and one of the world's top ten container carriers in terms of ca ...

, was home to all of the nation's top ten municipalities by percentage of Korean population and an absolute total of 56,773 Korean Americans. The concentration of Korean Americans in

Palisades Park, New Jersey Palisades Park is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 20,292, an increase of 670 (+3.4%) from the 2010 census count of 19,622,

, within Bergen County, was the highest of any municipality in the United States in 2010, at 52% of the population. The city of

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contained the highest Korean American population of any city proper in 2010, approximately 108,282.

Large cities

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

Medium-sized cities

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

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

''Main articles: Koreatown, Palisades Park (벼랑 공원 코리아타운) and Koreatown, Fort Lee (포트 리 코리아타운)'' (Note that

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and

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are official

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

References

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American Census U.S. Census website

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