Samoan Americans
There are large Samoan communities in Greater Los Angeles, Orange County, California, San Francisco Bay Area, and Greater San Diego counties in the state of California.
Other states with cities and towns with significant communities are Alaska, Arizona, Missouri, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Utah, and Washington.
[4] In the 1920s a small group of Mormons from American Samoa emigrated to the modern United States.
It was probably due to the crash of 29, the loss of an important rice field for the community, and the Second World War.
In the second half of the 1940s about 300 mostly military families of American Samoans emigrated to the United States specifically to Hawaii.
In fact, the largest Samoan migration to the US occurred at this time (mainly at the beginning of the decade).
[16] The percentages and numbers of Samoan people residing in cities listed below vary from 2015 to 2018, according to the "5-Year Estimates Detailed Tables" from the US Census Bureau.
[18] Also in San Diego, one of the very first Samoan churches in the entire United States, was founded in 1955 by Rev.
[19][20][21] There are Samoan communities enumerating several hundred in Moreno Valley (300 to 500) and San Bernardino (400), at least 0.2% of the city’s populations.
Felix T. and Molly T. Ava Molifua, affiliated with Northern California UCC.
In Central California, Samoan Americans are concentrated in Monterey County, which was home to a U.S. Army base, Fort Ord, which closed in 1994.
[18] The Seattle−Tacoma, Washington area is also home to a sizable Samoan community, especially in the cities of Kent (1.5%), Renton (1%), Federal Way (1.6%), SeaTac (2.9%), and White Center (3.2%).
[25] The south Seattle neighborhoods of Columbia City and Rainier Valley have had sizeable Samoan communities since the 1960s and 1970s.
[16] Utah has a history of Samoan immigration dating back to the late 1800s, due to them taking up Mormonism which was preached and influenced to them by missionaries who had come to Polynesian islands.
Utah's Mormon community had housing and services for some Polynesian immigrants, which also included Tongans and Maori.
Linapuni Street, especially the Kuhio Park Terrace apartments in Honolulu, has the highest concentration of Samoans of any residential area in Hawaii, at 37% of residents.
[29] There are 365 Samoan-origin people in Prince William County, Virginia, and a Samoan church in Alexandria.
Per capita, the Samoan Islands have produced the highest number of National Football League players.
