Demographics

• San Jose Vietnamese population: 100,486 (2010); 8.8% of the city's total population.

• San Jose has the largest Vietnamese population in the country.

• More than 5,000 businesses are owned by Vietnamese Americans.

• In Santa Clara county there are 60,657 ELL and 6,791 are Vietnamese

• There is an active community in San Jose around the Chua Duc Vien temple.

• 1 in 10 Vietnamese families lived in poverty in 2007 to 2009 in Santa Clara county.

• 1 in 3 Vietnamese households (36%) were linguistically isolated (no member ages 14 or older spoke only English)

Sources:

http://www.viet-nam.org

http://www.irccsanjose.com/

http://www.vanlangsj.org/view.php?pg=el_introduction

http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/SantaClara.htm

http://library.santaclaraca.gov