Community
Filipinos in Hawaii
From 1909 to 1934, Hawaiian sugar plantations recruited Filipinos, later known as sakadas; by 1932 Filipinos made up the majority of laborers on Hawaiian sugar plantations. In 1920, Filipinos were the fifth largest population by race in Hawaii, with 21,031 people. By 1930, the population of Filipinos in Hawaii had nearly tripled to 63,052. As late as 1940, the population of Filipinos in the Territory of Hawaii outnumbered Filipinos in the continental United States. In 1970, the Honolulu metropolitan area alone had a population of 66,653 Filipinos, the largest Filipino population in any metropolitan area in the United States.
According to the 2000 Census, the state of Hawaii had a Filipino population of over 275,000, with over 191,000 living on the island of Oahu; of those, 102,000 were immigrants. Furthermore, Filipinos made up the third largest ethnicity among Asian Pacific Americans, while making up the majority of the populations of Kauai and Maui Counties.
In the 2010 census, Filipino Americans became the largest Asian ethnicity in Hawaii, partially due to the declining population of the state's Japanese Americans. In 2011, four percent of all Filipino immigrants in the U.S. resided in the Honolulu metro area, and were 43% of all immigrants in the Honolulu metro area as well. Filipino immigrants in Hawaii made up six per cent of all Filipino immigrants in the United States.
In 2020, there were 383,200 Filipino Americans in Hawaii A quarter of the population of Hawaii are Filipino Americans. Filipino Americans are the second largest ethnicity in Hawaii, after European Americans.
Filipino Americans in Hawaii have the second highest median family income of any ethnic group, after Japanese Americans in Hawaii. The majority of Filipino Americans in Hawaii live in multigenerational households; and nearly a third work in the service industry.
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Filipino Americans were about a fifth of all COVID-19 cases in Hawaii. 2023 Hawaii wildfires on Maui significantly impacted the Filipino American community in Lahaina, where 40% of the community's population before the wildfires were Filipino.
Source: Wikipidia, 2020 US Census
Filipino Population In The US
Filipino Population In The US
Filipino Population In The US
As of the 2020 Census, there were 4.4 million Filipino Americans, including Multiracial Americans who were part Filipino living in the US.
1. California: 1,247,073
2. Hawaii: 202,501
3. Illinois: 120,321
4. Texas: 118,880
5. New Jersey: 118,269
6. New York: 114,070
7. Nevada: 109,846
8. Florida: 97,381
9. Washington: 93,143
10. Virginia: 72,616
Data sourced from US Census Bureau 2015 population estimates, the most recent data available as of 2023
The Global Filipino
Filipino Population In The US
Filipino Population In The US
Other Countries with the highest Filipino population:
1. United States: 3.4 Million
2. Saudi Arabia: 1 Million
3. Canada: 850,000
4. United Arab Emirates: 680,000
5. Malaysia: 325,000
6. Japan: 260,500
7. Australia: Population over 100,000
8. Italy: Population over 100,000
9. Spain: Population over 100,000
10. United Kingdom: Population over 100,000
OFWs / Migrant Workers
Overseas Filipino Workers are estimated at 1.96 million
The number of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) or Filipino workers who worked abroad during the period April to September 2022 was estimated at 1.96 million.
Source: PSA.gov
Total Remittance reached 197 billion pesos in 2022
Among the 1.96 million OFWs, 41.7 percent sent remittance between 40 thousand pesos to less than 100 thousand pesos, while 20.7 percent remitted at least 100 thousand pesos from April to September 2022. The total remittance of the OFWs during the period April to September 2022 reached 197.47 billion pesos.
Majority of Overseas Filipino Workers are women
Of the estimated 1.96 million OFWs in 2022, 1.13 million (57.8%) were females, while 828 thousand (42.2%) were males.