According to the last Economic Census, African Americans own nearly 9,000 companies in Fairfax County. In addition, the county is home to 25,000 Asian-owned businesses, 14,000 Hispanic-Latino businesses, 42,000 woman-owned companies and 12,000 veteran-owned firms in the county. Together these firms employ 80,000 people in the county and have total annual revenue of $14.4 billion.
According to 2010 Census numbers, 189,661 residents in Fairfax County, about 17.5 percent of the population, are of Asian or Pacific Islander descent. A further breakdown of the numbers shows that of that 17.5 percent, 43,956 are Asian Indian, 41,356 are Korean, 28,770 are Vietnamese, 26,197 are Chinese, 15,431 are Filipino, and 2,909 are Japanese with the remainder belonging to other Asian descent. Some areas of Fairfax County such as Annandale, Centreville, and McLean to name a few, have larger populations of some of the above groups compared to the rest of the county.
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