Indian Americans in Greater Los Angeles

Greater Los Angeles has the second-largest Indian American population in California, following the San Francisco Bay Area. As of 2015, there are 153,000 Indian Americans in greater Los Angeles[1] and Indian Americans make up the fifth-largest Asian ancestry group in the metropolitan area[2] Indian immigrants started to move to the suburbs areas of Southern California after the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, with a concentration of businesses in the southeastern Los Angeles County suburb of Artesia, California.[3]

  1. ^ "Top 10 U.S. metropolitan areas by Indian population, 2015". Pew Research.
  2. ^ "Statistical Atlas". Statistical Atlas.
  3. ^ "From dairies to samosas and saris". Los Angeles Times. 8 October 2006.