Samoans in Hawaii may be from or have ancestors in the independent nation of Samoa, the territory of American Samoa, or both.
Due to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, many American Samoans migrated to the rest of the United States.
[1] Samoans from the independent part of Samoa also migrated to Hawaii later on.
In 2010, 37,463 Hawaii residents (or 2-3% of the population) claimed Samoan ancestry, with 19,176 of them being mixed ethnicity.
[2] The vast majority of them live in Honolulu County (Oahu).