Washington:
Indian Americans are the highest-income and best-educated people in the United States and the third largest among Asian Americans who have surpassed Latinos as the fastest-growing racial group, according to a new survey.
Asians as a whole too are better educated and earn more than the general US population, according to the Pew Research Centre report on "The rose of Asian Americans" released Tuesday.
Indians, who now number 3.18 millions, the third largest after the Chinese (4 million) and the Filipinos (3.4 million) have a median household annual income of $88,000, much higher than for all Asians ($66,000) and all US households ($49,800).
Median annual personal earnings for Indian-American full-time, year-round workers are $65,000, significantly higher than for all Asian Americans ($48,000) as well as for all US adults ($40,000).
Seven-in-ten (70 per cent) Indian Americans ages 25 and older, have obtained at least a bachelor's degree; this is higher than the Asian-American share (49 per cent) and much higher than the national share (28 per cent), the survey found.
More than half of Indian Americans (57 per cent) own a home, compared with 58 percent of Asian Americans overall and 65 percent of the US population overall.
The share of adult Indian Americans who live in poverty is 9 per cent, lower than the rate for all Asian Americans (12 per cent) as well as the national rate (13 per cent).
Indian Americans stand out from most other US Asian groups in the personal importance they place on parenting; 78 per cent of Indian Americans say being a good parent is one of the most important things to them personally.
Indian Americans are among the most likely to say that the strength of family ties is better in their country of origin (69 per cent) than in the US (8 per cent).
Compared with other US Asian groups, Indian Americans are the most likely to identify with the Democratic Party; 65 per cent are Democrats or lean to the Democrats, 18 per cent are Republican or lean to the Republicans, the Pew Survey found.
And 65 per cent of Indian Americans approve of President Barack Obama's job performance, while 22 per cent disapprove.
Key Findings:
Indian Americans are more evenly spread out than other Asian Americans. About 24 per cent of adult Indian Americans live in the West, compared with 47 per cent of Asian Americans and 23 per cent of the US population overall.
More than three-in-ten (31 per cent) Indian Americans live in the Northeast, 29 per cent live in the South, and the rest (17 per cent) live in the Midwest.
Nearly nine-in-ten (87 per cent) adult Indian Americans in the United States are foreign born, compared with about 74 per cent of adult Asian Americans and 16 percent of the adult US population overall.
More than half of Indian-American adults are US citizens (56 per cent), lower than the share among overall adult Asian population (70 per cent) as well as the national share (91 per cent).
More than three-quarters of Indian Americans (76 per cent) speak English proficiently, compared with 63 per cent of all Asian Americans and 90 per cent of the US population overall.
The median age of adult Indian Americans is 37, lower than for adult Asian Americans (41) and the national median (45).
More than seven-in-ten (71 per cent) adult Indian Americans are married, a share significantly higher than for all Asian Americans (59 per cent) and for the nation (51 per cent).
The share of unmarried mothers was much lower among Indian Americans (2.3 per cent) than among all Asian Americans (15 per cent) and the population overall (37 per cent).