Who lives in California?

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Who Lives in California?

The U.S. Bureau of the Census estimates that 24.9% of the population of California is foreign-born (1997 statistics).

2000 Census Information

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You can download a free 12-page report with data on the Foreign Born Population. (You'll need Adobe Reader to view this pdf format file.) The file is rather large, at 472k.
You can look up other USA Census 2000 information for your area at the US Census Bureau site, American Factfinder.
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1990 Census data by zip code is no longer available.

The Center for Student Missions reports that:

Los Angeles is:
The largest Mexican metropolitan area outside Mexico
The largest Korean metropolitan area outside Korea
The largest Filipino metropolitan area outside the Philippines
The largest Vietnamese metropolitan area outside Vietnam
The largest Salvadoran metropolitan area outside El Salvador
The largest Guatemalan metropolitan area outside Guatemala
The second largest Chinese metropolitan area outside China
The second largest Japanese metropolitan area outside Japan
More than 50 foreign-language newspapers are published in Los Angeles County.

Ethnic Churches

A list of Chinese Baptist Churches in Los Angeles and Orange County can be found at http://members.tripod.com/fcbcfv/churches.htm.

School District Information
Your local public school district is one of the best sources of information on what languages are being spoken in your area.

California has published a census of "Number of Fluent-English-Proficient Students in California Public Schools, by Language".

The Spring 1998 census lists a total of 720,479 students from 59+ heritage languages. The most common languages are:

448,560 Spanish
38,767 Pilipinio/Tagolog
33,051 Vietnamese
26,443 Cantonese
25,675 Korean
21,064 Mandarin
11,844 Farsi/ Persian
10,823 Khmer/ Cambodian
9,018 Armenian
6,721 Arabic
6,614 Hmong
5,731 Russian
4,713 Hindi

Additional information collected can be found at a site called Ed-Data.

You can also download information on languages spoken in schools in San Mateo County.

The Council of the Great City Schools has collected census data for the largest public school districts in the country, including Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland Unified, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco.

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