Arab and Muslim American populations skew significantly younger than the U.S. average

Evidence

Moreover, there are many of them. Like most immigrant populations, both Arab and Muslim Americans are younger than the general population. Twenty-one percent of the American public is between eighteen and thirty years of age, but 30 percent of American Muslims are. The median age of Arab Americans is thirty-one, compared to thirty-five for the whole of the United States. This also means that many young Arabs and Muslims have no adult experience of the world prior to September 11. And while, nationally, Arabs and Muslims are generally more affluent than average Americans, in Brooklyn, the setting of this book, many come from working-class backgrounds, where they are driving their way through the maze of the American dream on paths that have become more complicated for all those who are young, Arab, and Muslim. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 50

Categorization

• XREF: The immigrant youth demographic skew (children of immigrants a big share) parallels patterns of earlier immigrant waves in The Namesake and the Irish/Italian histories.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 50