List of U.S. cities with significant Korean American populations

Cities with significant Korean American populations represent municipalities with critical masses of Korean Americans in their total urban or suburban populations. Information is based on the 2005-2009 American Community Survey or as specified in each table. The list includes those who have emigrated from South Korea as well as Korean Americans of multiple generations. There are numbers of North Koreans living in the United States, despite North Korean citizens being unable to freely emigrate out of their country. As of 2022, Americans of Korean descent composed an estimate of 1.8 to 2 million people.^[1]

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The three metropolitan areas with the highest Korean American populations as per the 2009 American Community Survey were the Greater Los Angeles Combined Statistical Area (300,000), the Greater New York Combined Statistical Area (200,000), and the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area (93,000).^[2][3] Southern California and the New York City Metropolitan Area^[4] have the largest populations of Koreans outside of the Korean Peninsula.^[5] Among Korean Americans born in Korea, the Los Angeles metropolitan area had 226,000 as of 2012; Greater New York (including Northern New Jersey) was home to 153,000 Korean-born Korean Americans; and metropolitan Washington, D.C., with 60,000.^[6]

By percentage, the Korean American population of Bergen County, New Jersey, in the New York City Metropolitan Area, at 6.5% of Bergen County's population in 2022,^[7] was the highest of any county in the United States. Bergen County, host to the county's highly ranked Academies magnet public high school^[8][9][10] as well as to the North American headquarters operations of South Korean chaebols including Samsung,^[11] LG Corp,^[12] and Hanjin Shipping,^[13] was home to all of the nation's top 10 municipalities by percentage of Korean population.^[14] These top 10 municipalities in the growing Korean hub of Bergen County, New Jersey, across the George Washington Bridge from New York City, were led by Palisades Park,^[15] the municipality with the highest density of ethnic Koreans in the Western Hemisphere. Displaying ubiquitous Hangul signage and known as the Korean Village,^[16] Palisades Park uniquely comprises a Korean majority, at 53.7% of the borough's population in 2022.^[17] with both the highest Korean-American density and percentage of any municipality in the United States. The city of Los Angeles contained the highest Korean American population of any city proper in 2010, approximately 108,282.^[18]