the asian-american population also increased rapidly from 2000 to 2010. there were 296,956 asian-americans in the metro area in 2010, making up 5.9% of the population. this represented an 87% increase over 2000. the largest asian groups are 108,980 indian-americans, 93,870 korean-americans, 67,660 chinese-americans, and 66,554 vietnamese-americans.