43,090 alone, 0.01% of US population 67,221 including partial ancestry, 0.02% (2019 Census estimates)
Regions with significant populations
American Samoa, Alaska (Anchorage), California (Oakland, Sacramento County, San Mateo County, Los Angeles County, Seaside), Hawaii (O'ahu), Nevada (Reno), Texas (Euless), Utah (Salt Lake County, Utah County)
Languages
American English, Tongan
Religion
Christianity, Polytheism, Mormonism
Related ethnic groups
Other Polynesians and
Samoan Americans.
Tongan Americans are Americans who can trace their ancestry to Tonga, officially known as the Kingdom of Tonga. There are approximately 57,000 Tongans and Tongan Americans living in the United States, as of 2012.[1] Tongans are considered to be Pacific Islanders in the United States Census, and are the country's fourth largest Pacific Islander American group in terms of population, after Native Hawaiians, Samoan Americans, and Guamanian/Chamorro Americans.
If the Tongan American population includes people living in American Samoa, there would be up to an additional 16,000 (some American Samoan residents are U.S. residents), there would be about 85,000 Tongan Americans, as of 2019. There are 67,221 people of Tongan descent living in the U.S., including those of partial ancestry, as per the 2019 U.S. Census estimates.[2]
People of Tongan descent are often found in clusters in the metropolitan areas of Dallas, Texas, California's San Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii, and the Salt Lake Valley of Utah.
^"Tongans mourn passing of king". San Mateo Daily Journal. March 20, 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
^"NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER ALONE BY SELECTED GROUPS".
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