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LA County tops latest census with most minority-owned businesses

Written by
Seth Kelley
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Los Angeles is known for being a city full of beautiful diversity—and plastic surgery, the rich and famous and gentrification (looking at you, Silver Lake and Downtown). But it is still staggering to see just how diverse the LA landscape is compared to the rest of the country.

According to recent census data collected from 2012, Los Angeles County had more minority-owned businesses than any other place in the country. In fact, the majority of businesses (55 percent) were minority-owned. In the same year, throughout the rest of the country only 28.8 percent of businesses were owned by minorities.

To break the numbers down, LA ranked second for number of black or African-American owned businesses (first was Cook County in Illinois), as well as number of Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander-owned companies (first was... no shocker here, Honolulu County, Hawaii).

Across all of California in 2012, there were 1.6 million minority-owned businesses, and 631,218 of those were in Los Angeles (332,967 were Hispanic; 213,203 Asian; 81,563 black or African-American; 11,081 American Indian and Alaska Native, and 3,798 Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander).

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