Filipino Americans in Hampton Roads

[2] On the East Coast of the United States, this is the largest group of people of Filipino ancestry.

[4] In turn, nurses of Philippine ancestry and Filipinos of other occupations also moved to Hampton Roads.

[4] In the 1990s Filipino cultural organizations began advocating attention towards gangs made up of young people of Filipino ancestry, and the Filipino-American Community Action Group (FIL-AM CAG) responded by establishing a "truce dance".

[5] In 2022, Norie Quintos of National Geographic stated that Kempsville, Virginia Beach formed "the heart of the Philippine American community.

The numbers in other municipalities were as follows: 4,727 in Norfolk, 3,050 in Chesapeake, 1,164 in Newport News, 508 in Portsmouth, 491 in Hampton, and 488 in Suffolk.