Ventura County sees influx of Asian Americans

Ventura County is beginning to feel the demographic expansion of Asian Americans in Southern California. The Ventura County Star reports that new census data shows a big increase in Asians, led by Filipinos and Chinese:

New U.S. Census data show that since 2000, the Indian population in Ventura County has increased by 66 percent. Populations of Asians across the board have increased, including within the Chinese, Filipino and Korean communities. But Indians, along with the Vietnamese population, which had an increase of nearly 50 percent, made up the lion’s share of the growth.

Though the overall percentages of Asians in the county are still relatively small — now 6.5 percent of the population, or about 52,000 individuals, versus 5.3 percent in 2000 — their population surged nearly 30 percent. The U.S. has an average population of 4.3 percent Asians.

--Shelby Grad

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[steve rodriguez]

II'll take legal Asian immigrants over the undocumented anytime!
How about trading some Asian immigrants to LA County for our illegals?

[janet]

Over 2 decades ago, there was a huge exodus from L A to Ventura County for the schools, to escape LAUSD. And as the cost of a home in Ventura's new developments like Bell Canyon was less than a smaller home in a decent area of L A, there seemed to be a win-win situation.

However, while many families were and are very happy with their choice, their kids in schools better than many very expensive private schools within the LAUSD district, some people found the lifestyle out there a little antiseptic and even boring and if they had to commute to L A, too stresfful. So some are choosing to suffer the horrible local school system and traffic and make a go of it in L A. (Though often in adjacent areas like Thousand Oaks.)

Many of those who stay are the liberal, highly-educated Obama voters seeking "diversity." (Though in numbers, they're WAAAY outnumbered by families who move to where they have better schools, bigger homes, cleaner streets and more cops for the same money.)

In the meantime, many Asians and S. Asian Indians, as well as middle-class blacks and Latinos, are moving to Bell and other Ventura County canyons for the same reason whites did decades earlier. Getting a nice new home in a clean community. This is a return to the "old" America that many whites grew up with, but they're experiencing it and loving it for the first time.