Brooklyn hosts more Arab Americans than Dearborn despite lower concentration

Evidence

Brooklyn has the largest Arab-American population in the nation. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, close to 36,000 live in Brooklyn, about half of New York City’s total Arab-American population. Dearborn, Michigan, the unofficial capital of Arab America, may have a much higher concentration of Arab Americans by orders of magnitude, but Brooklyn’s Arab population is more numerous than even Dearborn’s (at around 30,000). — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 52

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• CANDY: The fact that Dearborn—Arab America’s unofficial capital—has fewer Arabs than a single NYC borough is a fun geography trivia point.