Editing Fort Bend County, Texas (section)

===Ethnic backgrounds===
Since the 1970s, Fort Bend County has been attracting people from all ethnic backgrounds. According to a 2001 Claritas study, it was the fifth-most diverse U.S. county, among counties with a population of 100,000 or more.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_July_23/ai_76689304 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021064756/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_July_23/ai_76689304 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 21, 2008 |work=Business Wire |title=Claritas Study Ranks Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Counties Nationwide; Analysis Shows California Leads Nation In Diversity Among Counties Of 100,000-Plus Population |date=July 23, 2001 |access-date=July 30, 2008}}</ref>

It is one of a growing number of U.S. counties with no single ethnic group forming a majority of the population. Fort Bend County has the highest percentage of Asian-American residents in the Southern United States; the largest groups are of [[Vietnamese Americans|Vietnamese]], [[Chinese Americans|Chinese]], [[Indian Americans|Indian]], and [[Filipino Americans|Filipino]] ancestry. By 2011, Fort Bend was ranked the fourth-most racially diverse county in the United States by ''[[USA Today]]''. The newspaper based the ranking on calculating the probability that two persons selected at random would be of different ethnic groups or races. According to the ''USA Today'' methodology, the chance of people of being two different ethnic groups/races being selected was 75%. Karl Eschbach, a former demographer with the State of Texas, has said that many people from Houston neighborhoods and communities with clear racial identities, such as the [[East End, Houston|East End]], [[Sunnyside, Houston|Sunnyside]], and the [[Third Ward, Houston|Third Ward]], moved to suburban areas that were too new to have established racial identities. Eschbach explained, "[a]s a large minority middle class started to emerge, Fort Bend was virgin territory that all groups could move to."<ref name="KeverCrossroads">Kever, Jeannie. "[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7590873.html FACING A CROSSROADS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605123132/http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7590873.html |date=June 5, 2011}}." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. June 1, 2011. Retrieved on June 3, 2011.</ref>

In 2020, Fort Bend County had the highest percentage of Asian Americans of any county in Texas. In 2019, [[Indian Americans]] made up almost 50% of the Asian Americans in the county, with the second- and third-largest subsets being [[Chinese Americans]] and [[Vietnamese Americans]]. From 2010 to 2020, the percentage of non-Hispanic White residents declined by 4.8% (though this population grew in absolute numbers), the Asian-American community grew by 83,167 (83.7% increase), the percentage of Hispanic people increased by 42.9%, and the percentage of Black people increased by 35.9%.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bauman|first=Anna|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Asian-Americans-fastest-growing-Fort-Bend-Houston-16486256.php|title=Asian Americans are the fastest growing demographic in Houston's suburbs. Here's why.|newspaper=[[Houston Chronicle]]|date=September 26, 2021|accessdate=November 19, 2021}}</ref> Fort Bend County also has the highest percentage of [[Filipino Americans]] in the Greater Houston area and in state of Texas.<ref name=":0" /> Filipinos are also the fourth-largest Asian subset in the county.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=State of Asian Ameerican and Pacific Islander Health in Houston/Harris County and Surrounding Areas |url=https://www.houstontx.gov/health/chs/Asian.pdf |access-date=August 31, 2023 |website=www.houstontx.gov}}</ref>