Korean Population In Hawaii Sees a 11% Decline Over 5 Years
if you can believe it only 38% of the population in Hawaii is Asian with the numbers of Koreans making up that portion of the population dropping. I bet the high cost of living in Hawaii is causing more Koreans to seek the American dream on the mainland instead:
Although the overall Korean population in the United States rose by 11.3 percent from 2009 to 2014, it fell slightly in Hawaii, according to American Community Survey data taken from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The state’s Korean population numbered 22,125 as of last year, down 337 from 2013. Koreans make up 1.6 percent of Hawaii’s 1.42 million population.
Koreans are centered in Oahu, numbering 19,973 there. Big Island (1,049), Maui (651), Kauai (429) and Lanai (15) follow, according to data.
Asians make up 38 percent of the state’s population. [Korea Times]
You can read more at the link.
The KA population increase is mostly in the South.
http://www.asiamattersforamerica.org/southkorea/data/koreanamericanpopulation
@1- Denny good link. With the Korean car manufacturing factories and the low cost of living it does make sense that KAs would be heading more to the South. Your link also shows that despite the population decline of KAs in Hawaii per capita it still has the most KAs.