List of U.S. cities with large Vietnamese-American populations
City Percentage Number
Midway City , California 41.4 3,511
Morrow , Georgia 20.3 1,307
Avondale , Louisiana 20.1 1048
Henderson , Louisiana 18.0 300
Amelia , Louisiana 17.8 437
Bayou La Batre , Alabama 14.5 370
Lake City , Georgia 13.0 340
Palacios , Texas 8.1 383
Towns
These cities have fewer than 10,000 people and consist of at least 8% Vietnamese American in the 2010 Census , sorted by percentage .
The following is a list of U.S. cities with large Vietnamese American populations. They consist of cities with at least 10,000 Vietnamese Americans or where Vietnamese Americans constitute a large percentage of the population. The information contained here was based on the 2010 U.S. Census. Vietnamese-Americans immigrated to the United States in different waves. The first wave of Vietnamese from just before or after the Fall of Saigon/the last day of the Vietnam War, April 30, 1975. They consisted of mostly educated, white collar public servants, senior military officers, and upper and middle class Vietnamese and their families. The second wave came in the 1980s escaping very precariously in boats from the communist regime as boat people. In the 1990s and 2000s, a third wave came from the US's Humanitarian Operation Program, family members of Vietnamese-Americans, former prisoners of re-education camps, and Amerasian children of American servicemen who applied for entry into the United States. Vietnamese-Americans vary in income level, with some being upper-class while others, particular those who came later, are working-class. Vietnamese-Americans are mainly concentrated in metropolitan areas in the West, including Orange County, California, San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.