text: what percent of the us is chinese? i was reading wikipedia and it said rougly 1percent of the us is chinese it sounds wrong..i mean i know ders alot of asians..but is der only 1% of the us chinese? wow people, if you don't know what your talking about, why answer?  according to the last census, the asian population of the us was about 4.2%.  however, asians are a very fast growing racial group, that number has risen slightly in the past few years.  your right, the chinese population is just about 1% of the us population - they are the largest nationality among asians in america.  the reason this number seems so unreasonable to you is because asians, and chinese specifically, tend to live strictly in urban areas on the coasts.  for example, i live a suburb of seattle with an asian population of almost 30%, and chinese are about half that number.  there are many places in california where asians and chinese are numerical majority.  however, there are very few chinese people in much of the midwest, south, etc - rural areas in these regions very likely have nonexistant chinese or asian populations.  most states in this country have very small asian populations, and are only slightly balanced by california, hawaii, washington, new york, texas - places where there are larger proportions of asian people or major cities (where asians, specifically chinese, tend to live).