MOCO Map of the Week--Percent Asian by Census Tract, 2010

This week's map shows the distribution of the Asian population in Montgomery County.  In 2010 13.9% of the county's population was Asian.

By comparison, only 5.52 % of Maryland's population was Asian in 2010.  For the US as a whole, the percent was even smaller, at 4.8%.

A couple of patterns stand out here.  First, Asians tend to be clustered outside the beltway, which runs in a straight line just above the District's northern tip (the top of the triangle at the bottom of the county).  Second, the census tracts with the highest percentages of Asians tend to be on the western side of the county. Next map will look at the distribution of the Hispanic/Latino population in MOCO.  Stay tuned!