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Exploring the beautiful nature of California


California Nature: Demographics


California is the most populous of all fifty states. It has many people from a wide variety of ethnic, racial, national, and religious backgrounds. The state continues to attract significant numbers of immigrants, and continues to grow dramatically in overall size. Much of the population is in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Diego, Sacramento, and Fresno areas.

As of 2006, California has an estimated population of 37,172,015, more than 12 percent of the U.S. population. If it were an independent country, California would rank 34th in population in the world. Its population is one third larger than that of the next largest state, Texas. California surpassed New York state to become the most populous state in 1962.
demographics of California cities California has no majority ethnic group, making it a minority-majority state. Non-Hispanic whites make up 42.3% of the population. Spanish is the state's second most spoken language, especially in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the US-Mexico border counties of San Diego and Imperial. Nearly 43% of California residents speak a language other than English at home, a proportion far higher than any other state.

The largest named ancestries in California are Mexican (25%), German (9%) Irish (7.7%), English (7.4%) and Filipino (6%); there are 65 other ethnicities including Albanians, Haitians, Pakistanis, and Somalis. Both Los Angeles and San Francisco have large numbers of residents with French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Scandinavian ancestry.

Hispanics, mainly Mexican Americans, predominate in Southern California, especially in Los Angeles. The city itself is said to be the largest Mexican community in the United States. Latinos are the largest ethnic group in Los Angeles County at over 40 percent of the county's population. They also comprise sizable communities in Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento, San José, Long Beach, Anaheim, Riverside, and San Diego. In Santa Ana, they comprise 75 percent of the population.
The Imperial Valley on the U.S.-Mexican border is about 70–75% Latino; Hispanic communities are also dominant in Riverside County, especially in its eastern end and Coachella Valley. The Central Valley has many Mexican American migrant farm workers. Hispanics make up over 20% of the San Francisco Bay Area. Many live in San Mateo, Alameda and Santa Clara counties, as well as in San Francisco's Mission district. The Napa Valley and Salinas Valley have predominantly Hispanic communities established by migrant farm workers.

California has about 55% (or 6.7 million) of the nation's Asian American population. The state has a long history of established Asian communities, including Chinese since the 1850s, Japanese since the 1880s, and Filipinos for over a century. A large wave of Asian immigration since 1965 brought in more Chinese along with Koreans and Southeast Asians. South Asians are a more recent but fast-growing group.
percentage of ethnic groups by age in california Filipino Americans are particularly numerous in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo and Solano counties, and in southern California communities such as Artesia, Baldwin Park, Carson, Cerritos, Covina, West Covina, and the Eagle Rock district of Los Angeles. Around San Diego, many Filipinos live in the communities of Mira Mesa, National City, and Chula Vista. Delano near Bakersfield, other towns in the San Joaquin Valley, the Coachella Valley-Imperial Valley region, Salinas, Stockton, and Lathrop also have large Filipino American populations.

Chinese Americans are numerous in San Francisco, Oakland, the East Bay, South Bay, Sacramento, San Diego, and the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County. The San Francisco Bay Area has a greater concentration of Cantonese-speaking Chinese than anywhere in the United States. Southern California has perhaps the largest Taiwanese American community in the U.S., particularly in the San Gabriel Valley, Cerritos, West Covina, Irvine, and communities in the South Bay, Los Angeles.
As of 2000, 60.5% of California residents age 5 and older speak English at home and 25.8% speak Spanish. Chinese is the third most spoken language at 2.6%, followed by Tagalog at 2.0% and Vietnamese at 1.3%. Over 200 languages are known to be spoken and read in California, with Spanish used as the state's "alternative" language. California has more than 100 indigenous languages, making California one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the world.

California has eight of the 50 most populous cities in the U.S., the most of any U.S. state. It also has 3 of the 10 most populous cities, tied with Texas for the most of any state. Los Angeles, with over 4 million people, is the largest city in California and the second largest city in the U.S. Other large cities in California are San Diego (9th), San José (10th), San Francisco (12th), Long Beach (34th), Fresno (37th), Sacramento (38th), and Oakland (44th).

In 2009, illegal immigrants constituted an estimated 7% of the population, with the same concentration as Arizona
 
 
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