Gujarati Americans

Faith plays a big role in the rapidly growing Gujarati community in North Texas, which has three large Hindu temples.

Census numbers showed that from 2000 to 2010, the population more than doubled, going from 49,181 to 106,964 for Collin, Dallas, Denton, Rockwall and Tarrant counties.

Richardson has a long-established Gujarati population, and it was there that a group of businessmen founded the India Association of North Texas (1962).

Given the Gujarati propensity for entrepreneurship and business enterprise, a number of them opened shops and motels.

[14][15][16] The descendants of the Gujarati immigrant generation have also made high levels of advancement into professional fields, including as physicians, engineers[17] and politicians.

Gujaratis have achieved a high demographic profile in many urban districts worldwide, notably in India Square , or Little Gujarat , in Bombay , Jersey City , New Jersey , in the New York City Metropolitan Area , United States, as large-scale immigration from India continues into New York , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] with the largest metropolitan Gujarati population outside of India.