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American Indian* & Alaska Native Alone
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Los Angeles County

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2022 & 2020 Census Estimates & 2010 Census

Also see:
-- American Indian & Alaska Native by City and Community
-- 2000 Census Figures


Los Angeles County is home to the largest U.S. population of ethnically indigenous people from Latin America. The county also has the second largest population of persons who claim to be only of American Indian descent. Maricopa County, Arizona, ranks first.

American Indian* & Alaska Native Alone by Tribe

Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
American Indian or Alaska Native 111,096 100.00% 78,132 100.00% 71,471 100.00%
American Indian, Tribe Specified 81,939 73.76% 52,250 66.87% 36,404 50.94%
Apache 2,262 2.04% 2,758 3.53% 2,316 3.24%
Arapaho 14 0.01% 141 0.18% 69 0.10%
Blackfeet 578 0.52% 494 0.63% 420 0.59%
Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
Canadian and French American Indian 255 0.23% 158 0.20% 140 0.20%
Central American Indian 18,444 16.60% 9,047 11.58% 1,349 1.89%
Cherokee 2,197 1.98% 2,922 3.74% 2,608 3.65%
Cheyenne 73 0.07% 134 0.17% 120 0.17%
Chickasaw 328 0.30% 181 0.23% 181 0.25%
Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
Chippewa 419 0.38% 527 0.67% 427 0.60%
Choctaw 545 0.49% 544 0.70% 866 1.21%
Colville 30 0.03% 36 0.05% 42 0.06%
Comanche 268 0.24% 306 0.39% 211 0.30%
Cree 65 0.06% 167 0.21% 44 0.06%
Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
Creek 134 0.12% 171 0.22% 378 0.53%
Crow 0 0.00% 10 0.01% 33 0.05%
Delaware 42 0.04% 56 0.07% 76 0.11%
Hopi 230 0.21% 128 0.16% 295 0.41%
Houma 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3 0.00%
Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
Iroquois 188 0.17% 295 0.38% 288 0.40%
Kiowa 28 0.03% 33 0.04% 93 0.13%
Lumbee 5 0.00% 44 0.06% 81 0.11%
Menominee 42 0.04% 0 0.00% 20 0.03%
Mexican American Indian 42,891 38.61% 19,911 25.48% 13,885 19.43%
Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
Navajo 2,505 2.25% 2,524 3.23% 2,338 3.27%
Osage 54 0.05% 60 0.08% 92 0.13%
Ottawa 68 0.06% 15 0.02% 42 0.06%
Paiute 469 0.42% 193 0.25% 174 0.24%
Pima 59 0.05% 95 0.12% 327 0.46%
Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
Potawatomi 135 0.12% 113 0.14% 141 0.20%
Pueblo 661 0.59% 883 1.13% 746 1.04%
Puget Sound Salish 6 0.01% 0 0.00% 31 0.04%
Seminole 38 0.03% 11 0.01% 114 0.16%
Shoshone 146 0.13% 202 0.26% 173 0.24%
Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
Sioux 542 0.49% 724 0.93% 851 1.19%
South American Indian 1,003 0.90% 643 0.82% 476 0.67%
Spanish American Indian 1,324 1.19% 1,948 2.49% 929 1.30%
Tohono O'Odham 379 0.34% 597 0.76% 413 0.58%
Ute 60 0.05% 51 0.07% 90 0.13%
Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
Yakama 3 0.00% 8 0.01% 23 0.03%
Yaqui 1,182 1.06% 1,423 1.82% 1,045 1.46%
Yuman 271 0.24% 211 0.27% 209 0.29%
All other American Indian tribes 3,996 3.60% 4,486 5.74% 4,245 5.94%
American Indian, Tribe Not Specified 6,005 5.41% 4,937 6.32% 3,769 5.27%
Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
Alaska Native, Tribe Specified 193 0.17% 278 0.36% 271 0.38%
Alaskan Athabascan 12 0.01% 22 0.03% 59 0.08%
Aleut 53 0.05% 4 0.01% 42 0.06%
Inupiat 61 0.05% 183 0.23% 58 0.08%
Tlingit-Haida 40 0.04% 69 0.09% 79 0.11%
Tribal Origin 2022 Census Estimates 2020 Census Estimates 2010 Census
Population Percent Population Percent Population Percent
Tsimshian 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 14 0.02%
Yup'ik 27 0.02% 0 0.00% 19 0.03%
Alaska Native, Tribe Not Specified 178 0.16% 84 0.11% 37 0.05%
American Indian or Alaska Native, Tribe Not Specified 18,369 16.53% 17,664 22.61% 30,990 43.36%
Two or More American Indian or Alaska Native Tribes 4,412 3.97% 2,919 3.74% --- ---

* The Almanac here uses the term American Indian, versus Native American, because the U.S. Census Bureau refers to most indigenous people of the Americas as such. According to a 1995 Census Bureau study, 50% of people identifying themselves as indigenous preferred the term American Indian, 37% preferred Native American, and the remainder preferred other terms or had no preference. The Census Bureau uses American Indian to include indigenous people of all the Americas (North and South America and the Carribbean) who are not Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian. It should also be noted that indigenous people groups native to Los Angeles County use the term "Indian."

† Census estimates from the American Community Survey based upon data and surveys collected over the previous 5-year period.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau