Vietnamese Americans

Vietnamese Americans
*Người Mỹ gốc Việt*
Total population
	2,183,000; 0.7% of the total U.S. population (2018)
Regions with significant populations
	Los Angeles and Orange County; San Francisco Bay Area (esp. San Jose); Sacramento, California; Greater Houston; Dallas-Fort Worth; Twin Cities metropolitan area; Washington metropolitan area/Northern Virginia/Maryland; Seattle area; San Diego County; Metro Atlanta; Greater Boston; Philadelphia area; New York City; Denver, Colorado; Chicagoland; Honolulu, Hawaii; Greater Orlando others;
Languages
	Vietnamese, English
Religion
	Buddhism (43%) • Catholicism (30%) ; Unaffiliated (20%) • Protestantism (6%) ; Vietnamese folk religion • Caodaism • Hòa Hảo
Related ethnic groups
	Vietnamese people, Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese Canadians, Vietnamese Australians, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Hmong Americans

Vietnamese Americans (Vietnamese: Người Mỹ gốc Việt) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They comprise approximately half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group following Chinese Americans, Indian Americans, and Filipino Americans. There are approximately 2.3 million people of Vietnamese descent residing in the U.S. as of 2023.

The Vietnamese community in the United States was minimal until the exodus of South Vietnamese refugees to the country following the end of Vietnam War in 1975. More than half of Vietnamese Americans reside in the two most populous states of California and Texas, primarily their large urban areas.

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