Metro population data is however only available from the census bureay for 1990. Based on trends in the early 1990s, it is likely that Los Angeles, and Oakland, Calif., Middlesex, NJ, and Houston, Texas, have each experienced faster growth than most other major Indian metros. In 1990, the number of Indian metros with atleast 1,000 Indians stood at almost 100. Little India projects that nearly 170 metros will exceed that number in 2000. The Pakistani American population is estimated at around 210,000 and the Bangladeshi population at around 81,000.
Immigration continues to be the strongest fuel for South Asian population growth.
More than 340,000 Indians immigrated to the United States in the 1990s. During the same period, Pakistani immigration stood at 106,000 and Bangladeshi immigration at 57,000. Because of their far smaller starting population in 1990, both Pakistani and Bangladeshi populations grew almost twice the rate of Indian and the Asian population in the 1990s. Population based on census data. 2000 population is Little India projection.