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Population aged 25 and over and Share Asian, not Hispanic

Where Population aged 25 and over is higher, Share Asian, not Hispanic tends to be higher. The link is weak: +0.31 across 2,057 counties, on a scale from −1 (opposite) to +1 (in step). That figure compares places with the same population density, income and education, so those differences can't explain it. It holds inside states too. Measured separately within each of 39 states, the middle value of the link is +0.63.

Holds after adjusting

Every place, plotted

One dot for each place reporting both measures. Hover over or tap a dot to see its name and values. The thin line is the straight line that best fits the dots. The bold line, shown for counties, is the link after adjusting for density, income and education. A dot far from the lines is a place that does not follow the pattern.

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What each measure is

Population aged 25 and over

The number of residents aged 25 and over. Education levels are measured for this age group, since most people have finished school by then.

Census ACS 5-year · ACS table B15003_001

Share Asian, not Hispanic

The percentage of residents who are Asian alone and not Hispanic.

Census ACS 5-year · ACS table B03002_006, divided by total population

Highest and lowest

Where each measure is highest and lowest among the places reporting both (2023), with the other measure beside it. This is shown for every size of place where both are published. Metro-area values are added up from their counties. A measure that cannot be added up across counties, such as a middle value (median), has no metro figure. Counts are shown per 1,000 residents, since raw totals would only list the largest places. Cities and towns and ZIP codes are shown where the Census survey or the CDC publishes them; most other sources stop at the county. They are shown for places of 5,000 residents or more, and only where the survey’s margin of error is small enough for the figure to be usable. The CDC publishes its health estimates for cities in a version adjusted for age, so places with older or younger people can be compared fairly, but not for ZIP codes.

Counties

By population aged 25 and over

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Highest
Sumter County, FL900.200.986%
Jefferson County, WA847.541.33%
Keweenaw County, MI843.780%
Sullivan County, PA833.650%
Charlotte County, FL832.361.29%
Lowest
Madison County, ID336.671.44%
Lexington city, VA438.143.21%
Radford city, VA448.112.22%
Chattahoochee County, GA463.242.97%
Williamsburg city, VA488.116.75%

By share Asian, not Hispanic

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Highest
Honolulu County, HI704.9442%
Aleutians West Census Area, AK757.2440.7%
Santa Clara County, CA703.0939.3%
San Francisco County, CA800.2234.7%
Alameda County, CA720.3032%
Lowest
Yuma County, CO666.060%
San Juan County, CO810.140%
Lincoln County, CO753.820%
Kiowa County, CO696.900%
Jackson County, CO768.640%
States

By population aged 25 and over

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Highest
Puerto Rico741.070.082%
Maine738.061.1%
New Hampshire727.182.57%
Florida722.792.8%
District of Columbia720.764.01%
Lowest
Utah601.322.32%
Texas650.975.25%
North Dakota653.291.54%
Nebraska656.332.48%
Idaho657.211.28%

By share Asian, not Hispanic

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Highest
Hawaii710.6936.7%
California686.5215.1%
New Jersey697.019.83%
Washington698.769.31%
New York704.308.83%
Lowest
Puerto Rico741.070.082%
West Virginia711.250.747%
Wyoming682.180.798%
Montana697.100.809%
Mississippi667.570.965%
Metro areas

By population aged 25 and over

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Highest
Port Townsend, WA837.461.33%
Brookings, OR823.790.708%
Wildwood-The Villages, FL816.880.986%
Susanville, CA808.221.59%
Key West-Key Largo, FL800.101.06%
Lowest
Rexburg, ID397.541.44%
Vermillion, SD479.623.02%
Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT485.921.41%
Logan, UT-ID504.441.84%
Pullman, WA507.317.4%

By share Asian, not Hispanic

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Highest
Urban Honolulu, HI715.1042%
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA710.0538.1%
Kapaa, HI718.6929%
Kahului-Wailuku, HI724.2027.8%
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA745.1827.4%
Lowest
Raymondville, TX645.260%
Mitchell, SD668.700%
Las Vegas, NM753.140%
Iron Mountain, MI-WI742.300%
Hailey, ID698.640%
Cities and towns

By population aged 25 and over

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Highest
Laguna Woods city, CA995.8523.7%
Sun City West CDP, AZ994.781.19%
The Villages CDP, FL993.291.19%
Sun City CDP, AZ980.930.831%
Venice city, FL911.892.23%
Lowest
Notre Dame CDP, IN76.258.28%
Stony Brook University CDP, NY87.2247.1%
Rutgers University-Busch Campus CDP, NJ89.9617.5%
Isla Vista CDP, CA124.2314.9%
University of California-Davis CDP, CA125.6436.7%

By share Asian, not Hispanic

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Highest
Cupertino city, CA689.3871.7%
Milpitas city, CA726.0771.5%
South San Gabriel CDP, CA751.9869.5%
San Marino city, CA719.3668.9%
Waipahu CDP, HI703.6267.1%
Lowest
Terryville CDP, CT699.530%
Woodland Park city, CO753.450%
Lochbuie town, CO642.590%
Eagle town, CO648.620%
Mecca CDP, CA617.730%
ZIP codes

By population aged 25 and over

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Highest
ZIP 92637 (Laguna Woods city, CA)995.8523.7%
ZIP 85375 (Sun City West CDP, AZ)993.381.18%
ZIP 32162 (The Villages CDP, FL)992.321.22%
ZIP 85351 (Sun City CDP, AZ)988.610.903%
ZIP 08759 (Ocean County, NJ)926.802.13%
Lowest
ZIP 22807 (Harrisonburg city, VA)0.006.21%
ZIP 19717 (Newark city, DE)0.005.55%
ZIP 12222 (Albany city, NY)8.476.61%
ZIP 48825 (East Lansing city, MI)23.559.15%
ZIP 37916 (Knoxville city, TN)73.452.48%

By share Asian, not Hispanic

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Highest
ZIP 94539 (Fremont city, CA)711.3278.4%
ZIP 11355 (New York city, NY)789.4974.5%
ZIP 94555 (Fremont city, CA)699.9273.2%
ZIP 95035 (Milpitas city, CA)726.1371.3%
ZIP 95014 (Santa Clara County, CA)688.7271.3%
Lowest
ZIP 08734 (Ocean County, NJ)695.810%
ZIP 08533 (Ocean County, NJ)692.250%
ZIP 08059 (Mount Ephraim borough, NJ)726.670%
ZIP 07524 (Paterson city, NJ)613.180%
ZIP 06331 (Windham County, CT)793.020%

Counties furthest from the pattern

Compared with the straight line that best fits all 2,069 counties: the five with far more share Asian, not Hispanic than their population aged 25 and over would suggest, and the five with far less.

Population aged 25 and over, per 1,000 residentsShare Asian, not Hispanic
Above the line
Honolulu County, HI704.9442%
Aleutians West Census Area, AK757.2440.7%
Santa Clara County, CA703.0939.3%
San Francisco County, CA800.2234.7%
Alameda County, CA720.3032%
Below the line
Oglala Lakota County, SD517.630%
Buffalo County, SD521.340%
Madison County, ID336.671.44%
Sioux County, ND545.790%
Corson County, SD552.220%

Two series, one county

Both measures over time for a county you pick. The two charts are stacked, so they share only the years along the bottom. You can pick from the thirty largest counties reporting both. This panel covers 2010–2024, and a measure published only once shows as a single dot.

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Every version of the link

Each row measures the same link, from −1 to +1, in a different way. If the rows mostly agree, the link does not depend on one choice of method.

Before adjusting for anything+0.4582,057 counties reporting both
After adjusting for density, income and education+0.306the part of the link that is not just how urban, rich and educated a place is
Also adjusting for population size+0.275size taken out as well as density
Also comparing only within each state+0.259each county is compared only with others in its own state, so this is no longer a comparison between states
Giving bigger counties more weight+0.283the adjusted link for the average resident rather than the average county. With this weighting, the data counts for about 261 equally weighted counties
Middle value inside single states+0.629the link worked out inside each of 39 states with at least 20 counties reporting
Using ranks, after adjusting+0.337uses each county’s rank, not its value, so a few extreme counties cannot create the link

How much to believe it

Could it be chance?

The p-value is the chance of seeing a link this strong if there were really none. A value of 0.05 or less means the link is unlikely to be chance. Very small values are written in short form: 3.1e-16 means 0.00000000000000031, and the bigger the number after “e-”, the smaller the value. Treating every county as a separate case gives p = 6.6e-46. But counties in the same state tend to resemble each other, so the better figure allows for that: p = 5.7e-10. The site tested 20,910 pairs, and testing so many turns up some flukes. The q-value allows for that too. For this pair it is 3.4e-45.

Do nearby places look alike?

Moran’s I measures how much nearby places look alike: 0 means no map pattern, and higher means neighbours are more similar. For the part of each county that the adjustment leaves unexplained, it is +0.33 (p = 0.001). That unexplained part still clusters on the map. So some regional factor shared by both measures is not accounted for.

Did they change together?

The figures above compare counties at one moment. This asks a different question: where population aged 25 and over rose most, did share asian, not hispanicmove too? Each county’s change is compared with the average change in its own state. That takes out ups and downs that hit a whole region at once. Each change is the gap between two estimates that both contain some error. That error pulls these links towards zero, so a weak one is weak partly for that reason. The q column shows whether a link could be a fluke, allowing for the many pairs tested: 0.05 or less means it is unlikely to be chance.

PeriodCountiesChange togetherWithin statesq
2014–2019 the main test: each Census survey figure averages five years, and these two do not overlap; before the pandemic1,648+0.14+0.15—
2019–2023 a repeat check: its two five-year survey figures both include 2019, and it covers the COVID years1,731+0.13+0.14—

Both come from the American Community Survey, which asks a sample of households. Random error in a county's sample pushes both changes at once. So part of any agreement here is that shared error. It is shown, but not counted as a finding. How change is measured.

Related pairs

Association only. Nothing here shows that either measure changes the other. This describes counties, not the people in them. Two measures going together across places does not mean the same people have both. How the US county data works · Explore Population aged 25 and over and Share Asian, not Hispanic