According to 2021
US Census Bureau estimates, there were 243,682 Samoan people in the United States stateside population, including those who have partial Samoan ancestry. The Samoan American community consists in Americans of both American Samoan and Western Samoan descent.
California 63,000 people of Samoan origin reside in
California, meaning almost one-third of the Samoan population in the U.S. lives in California. 0.2% of California's population is of Samoan descent. The number of those who identify as Samoan alone is 36,443. 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.
Southern California Carson (1.8-2.2%),
Compton (0.3-0.5%), and
Long Beach (0.7-0.8%), and
Paramount (0.7-1%) in
Los Angeles County,
Oceanside (0.5-0.6%) in
San Diego County, and
Twentynine Palms (0.9-1.1%) in
San Bernardino County have among the highest concentration of Samoans in Southern California, which include those of partial ancestry. 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.
Northern California Much of San Francisco's Samoan community is tight-knit live amongst the city's African American community. The
public housing communities as well as residential communities in the
Bayview-Hunters Point,
Potrero Hill, and
Visitacion Valley neighborhoods in southeastern
San Francisco are home to much of the city's Samoan community. As per the 2015-18 estimates, San Francisco is 0.2-0.3% Samoan (1,807-2,262 residents). The 2018 estimate of the number of Samoans in San Francisco is a decrease from the 2000 reported number of Samoans, which was 2,311 (which did not account for people who reported to be part Samoan). In the
East Bay Area,
San Leandro is home to a sizable Samoan community (0.4%-0.6%), as well as in
Daly City (0.4-0.9%),
East Palo Alto (1.2-1.3%), and
Hayward (0.6%-0.9%).
Balboa High School is about 3% Pacific Islander during the 2010s and 2020s and middle and elementary schools, such as Charles Drew Elementary in southeast San Francisco, are rife in Samoans and in general Pacific Islanders; that school of roughly 200 students is 15-25% Pacific Islander, and a similar volume of Islanders go to school at KIPP Bayview and Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School. In Daly City, Samoan restaurants and businesses are located off Geneva Avenue. In 1972, the First Samoan Congregational Church of
San Jose was founded by Rev. Felix T. and Molly T. Ava Molifua, affiliated with Northern California UCC. Seattle has 1,500 Samoans, 0.2% of the city's population. The south Seattle neighborhoods of
Columbia City and
Rainier Valley have had sizeable Samoan communities since the 1960s and 1970s. Nearly 6,000 people of their descendants reside in
Pierce County, Washington, making up 0.7% of the county's population. Tacoma is home to 1,800 Samoans, making up nearly one percent of the city's population.
Salt Lake County cities such as
Kearns (2%),
Taylorsville (1.5%), and
West Valley City (1.8%) having above average proportions of Samoan people for Utah. There is a sizable Samoan community in
Utah County, specifically
Provo, which is at least 0.3% Samoan. The Oahu town of
Laie has 1,380 Samoan Americans, about 21% of the town, one of the highest concentration of Samoan Americas of any town or city in the US. ==Sports==