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In 2024 the American Community Survey counted 6.45 million US residents who reported a single South Asian race, 1.9% of the population; adding multiracial people who reported Asian Indian and others tied to South Asia by birthplace, ancestry or a parent raises the count to 7.41 million.

In 2022–24, 55% of South Asian Americans lived in five states, and in the 2020–24 county tables half lived in 34 of the nation's 3,144 counties; South Asians were 5.3% of New Jersey's residents and 11.8% of the San Jose metro area's.

In 2022–24 the median Indian American household had an income of $163,100 in 2024 dollars, about twice both the national median ($80,700) and the Bangladeshi American median ($81,700); 15.9% of Bangladeshi Americans lived below the poverty line, against 12.3% of all US residents and 6.4% of Indian Americans.

In 2022–24 South Asian Americans were 2.0% of US workers but 19.9% of software developers and 12.5% of physicians; the median full-time, year-round Indian American worker aged 25 to 64 earned $116,400 in 2024 dollars, against $64,700 for all such US workers and $61,800 for Bangladeshi Americans.

In 2022–24, 56% of South Asian Americans aged 25 to 34 were married, against 38% of all Americans that age, and 52% of those 65 and older lived with an adult son or daughter, against 18% of all Americans 65 and older.

In 2023–25, about 2.2 million US-born children and adults had a parent born in South Asia, 61% of them under 18; in 2015–25, 82% of those aged 25 to 44 held a bachelor's degree, against 71% of South Asian immigrants of their parents' generation, aged 55 to 74, and 41% of Americans aged 25 to 44 whose parents were born in the US.

South Asian American adult citizens rose from 1.02 million in 2005 to 3.13 million in 2024, and another 1.89 million South Asian adults (38%) could not vote because they were not citizens.

South Asian American citizens now vote in presidential elections at about the national rate, 67.4% in 2024 against 65.3% for all citizens, after trailing by 16.7 points in 2000 (an estimate covering Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi Americans only); in midterm years they still vote less, 46.2% against 52.2% in 2022.

In the three surveys that identify them, South Asian American voters gave the Democratic presidential candidate 80.2% to 86.0% of the two-party vote in 2016 and 2020, 10 to 13 points more than other Asian American voters; none of the public files available measures their vote in 2024.