Language
Indian subgroups speak Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Urdu, Kashmiri, and many other regional languages. About 70 percent of Indians are also fluent in English.
Other Facts:

• Over 65 percent of Asian Indians use the Internet
• Asian Indians were the fastest growing U.S. ethnic group from 1990-2000
• About 50 percent of lodges and 35 percent of all hotels in the U.S. are owned by Asian Indians
• 73 percent of Asian Indians are employed in the workforce, while 57 percent are employed in managerial of professional specialties  

Achievements Page
• There are now more than 2.15 million people of Indian origin in the United States that reflect the multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-lingual society of India.
• Asian Indians in the United States are represented in many fields including academics, entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, engineers and financers.
• According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Asian Indian’s in the United States have a median family income of $61,322 compared to the national median family income of $41, 994. The high income clearly reflects the advanced educational levels achieved by the community.
• High levels of education have also enabled Indian Americans to become a productive segment of the U.S. population, with 72.3 percent participating in the workforce.
• Of these workforce participants, 57.7 percent are employed in managerial and professional specialties.
• Technical, sales, and administrative support occupations constitute another 29.8 percent of the work force.
• The remaining 12.5 percent of the population works in other areas, such as operators, fabricators, laborers and precision production.
• More than 5,000 Asian Indians in the United States today serve as faculty members in institutions of higher education.
• About 300,000 Asian Indians in the United States work in technology firms in California’s Silicon Valley. They account for more than 15 percent of high-tech startups in that region. The median income of Asian Indians in that region is estimated to be $125,000 (average $200,000) a year.
• Two Asian Indians, Har Gobind Khorana of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and late Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar of University of Chicago, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine and physics respectively.
• Late Dr. Kalpana Chawla added a new chapter to the history of the Asian Indian community in the United States.   In 1997, she became the first Asian Indian to fly in the U.S. space shuttle as part of the Space Shuttle Columbia Flight STS-87.
• Asian Indians in the United States are increasingly beginning to take a more direct role in political activities. They have traditionally exercised most of their political influence through campaign contributions, and are actively involved in fundraising efforts for political candidates on the federal, state and local levels.