Identity & heritage community ranking

Top Japanese communities in U.S. city markets.

Explore where this community is largest and where it represents the greatest share of the local city market. The default ranking lens is 2024 ACS detailed Asian group (B02015_004E).

Identity discovery only — never a score. Census ancestry, ethnicity, origin, race, and birthplace measures can overlap. V3.4.3 keeps those lenses separate and never adds them together. Identity context never changes the Follow Your Heart Index or any component score.

Top 10 by population

Largest communities

Estimated population under the governed default identity lens.

Rank	City and state	Community population	City-market population
#1	Honolulu, Hawaii	70,247	414,987
#2	Los Angeles, California	24,847	3,848,831
#3	New York, New York	23,075	8,468,353
#4	Torrance, California	14,219	153,473
#5	Mililani, Hawaii	11,883	54,278
#6	Kaneohe, Hawaii	11,256	57,620
#7	Hilo, Hawaii	10,274	52,979
#8	San Jose, California	9,945	1,012,986
#9	San Diego, California	9,069	1,411,139
#10	San Francisco, California	8,372	830,479

Top 10 by representation

Highest community share

Share of the full city-market population under the same governed lens.

Rank	City and state	Community share	City-market population
#1	Mililani, Hawaii	21.89%	54,278
#2	Kaneohe, Hawaii	19.53%	57,620
#3	Hilo, Hawaii	19.39%	52,979
#4	Honolulu, Hawaii	16.93%	414,987
#5	Waipahu, Hawaii	10.32%	72,435
#6	Torrance, California	9.26%	153,473
#7	Kailua, Hawaii	7.74%	50,670
#8	Gardena, California	7.61%	84,578
#9	Novi, Michigan	5.28%	61,517
#10	Ewa Beach, Hawaii	5.18%	83,692

Governed identity lenses

One community can have more than one Census lens.

Detailed Asian identity: 2024 ACS detailed Asian group (B02015_004E) — default ranking lens
Birthplace: 2024 ACS birthplace (B05006_053E)

The default lens controls this page's rankings. Secondary lenses remain preserved in the publication contract and are not combined with the default measure.

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