Pacific Islands American
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 540,013 alone (.2% of US population) (2010 Census); 1,225,195 alone or in combination (.4% of US population) (2010 Census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Texas, Nevada, Utah, and Washington | |
| Languages | |
| American English, Carolinian, Chamorro, Fijian, Hawaiian, Marshallese, Samoan, Tongan, Polynesian languages, others | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Christian, Protestant various denominations Congregationalist, Methodists, Seventh Day Adventists, Roman Catholicism, Assembly of God, Mormonism,other religions | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Pacific Islanders |
Pacific Islands Americans, also known as Oceanian Americans, are Americans who have ethnic ancestry among the indigenous peoples of Oceania (viz. Polynesians, Melanesians and Micronesians). For its purposes, the US Census also counts Indigenous Australians as part of this group.
Pacific Islander Americans make up 0.5% of the U.S. population including those with partial Pacific Islander ancestry, enumerating about 1.4 million people. The largest ethnic subgroups of Pacific Islander Americans are Native Hawaiians, Samoans, Guamanian/Chamorros and Tongans. Native Hawaiians, Samoans, Tongans, and Chamorros have large communities in Hawaii, California, and Utah, with sizable communities in Washington, Texas, Nevada, and Oregon.
American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam are insular areas, while Hawaii is a state.
In the 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census, the term "Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander" refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, the Marshalls or other Pacific Islands.
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