San Francisco's Indian American population is growing

• Over the generations, other family members also moved to the U.S.

The big picture: Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S., and Americans of Indian descent are now the largest sub-group within that, new data released from the 2020 census confirms.

• The number of Americans who consider their racial origin as solely Asian Indian grew more than 50% to nearly 4.4 million people from 2010 to 2020.
• When factoring in people who consider themselves either single race or multiracial, the most populous Asian identification among Americans is still Chinese (excepting Taiwanese): 5.2 million people.
• According to the census, the five states with the largest percentages of Asian groups are California, New York, Texas, Hawaii and Washington.

Zoom in: In San Francisco, that number more than doubled from about 9,000 in 2010 to a little over 22,000 people in 2020.

What they're saying: "The rise of Indian Asians in America is significant partly because "it flies in the face of what people stereotypically think of as the quintessential Asian — their default image of someone who is Asian is East Asian," Karthick Ramakrishnan, political scientist and co-founder of AAPI Data, told Axios.

Yes, but: As hate crimes against Asian Americans increase, half of all Asian Americans say they don't feel safe in this country, and nearly 80% feel like they don't belong.

• There's very little data on how — and how many — Americans of Indian or South Asian descent have been targets of hate crimes.