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16 AUGUST 27, 2021

United StateS CenSUS

indian americans are wealthiest, best educated

and least poor in the country, reveals survey

The median household income of Indians in the US is now $123,700, almost double the national figure of $63,922

Our Bureau and US born citizens of Indian

New York origin have approximately the
same median family income of
ith a population of al- about $115,000. But naturalized
most four million, Indi- US citizens from India report a
Wan Americans make up higher median income $140,000.
just 1.2 percent of the US pop- Of the nearly four million
ulation but they are the wealthi- Indians in the US, roughly 1.6
est, best educated and least poor million are visa holders, 1.4 mil-
going by the latest US Census lion are naturalized US citizens,
data. “People of Indian descent and one million are US born cit-
hold a significant share of jobs izens.
in several high-paying fields, The number of people who
including computer science, fi- identify as Asian in the United
nancial management and med- States nearly tripled in the past
icine,” according to a New York The census data shows that Indian immigrants on visas and US born three decades, and Asians are
Times analysis. citizens of Indian origin have approximately the same median family now the fastest-growing of the
Nine percent of doctors in income of about $115,000 nation’s four largest racial and
the United States are of Indian ethnic groups, according to the
descent, and more than half of Times analysis.
them are immigrants, it notes. The Asian population is
The median household income complex, made up of nearly 20
of Indians in the US is now million people who trace their
$123,700, almost double the na- roots to more than 20 countries
tional figure of $63,922. in East Asia, Southeast Asia
A remarkable 79 percent of and the Indian subcontinent,
Indians are college graduates, regions that the Census Bureau
compared to the national fig- includes as places of origin for
ure of 34 percent, attesting to Asians. In 1990, the country’s
the emphasis on education in Asian population numbered 6.6
Indian families. The household million and was largely concen-
incomes of people of Asian trated in a few pockets in cities
descent exceed the overall US on the coasts.
population’s household in- Thirty years later, those en-
comes. Educational attainment claves have grown significant-
is similarly higher. But among ly, and the Asian population is
groups, there is quite a large Nine percent of doctors in the United States are of Indian descent, and more spread out, with families
variation, the Times notes. more than half of them are immigrants building lives in the suburbs of
“Economically, Indians are the South and in rural areas of
consistently wealthier, while nos, coming in at $97,000 and cent reporting median family in- the Midwest.
residents of Bhutanese descent $95,000 respectively are the come below $40,000 compared Asian Americans born in the
have the lowest income and are next wealthiest communities af- to a 33 percent nationally. United States tend to be young-
unlikely to own a home. Many ter Indians. Median household A healthy 25 percent of In- er — half of them are children.
are Nepali-speaking Bhutanese income of Chinese in the US is dian households reported an They are the children of older,
refugees, who were stranded for $85,229 and that of Japanese is income of over $200,000 com- naturalized citizens who immi-
years in camps with limited ac- $84,068. pared to the national figure of 8 grated to the country a genera-
cess to education.” Indians also have the least percent. The census data shows tion before, the Times analysis
Taiwanese and Filipi- poor people with only 14 per- that Indian immigrants on visas shows.

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