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- According to the 2020 Census, 54.5% of the city's nearly 110,000 people claim Middle Eastern or North African ancestry.
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Sep 26, 2023 · New U.S. Census Bureau data shows for the first time, people of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry make up the majority of Dearborn's population, 54.5%.
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Jul 9, 2014 · The Dearborn community is overwhelmingly Muslim, and majority Shiite Muslim. Shiites are a minority in the Muslim world. It’s also mostly Lebanese, with smaller pockets of Iraqis, Yemenis, and Palestinians. Nationally, Arab Americans are roughly half Muslims and half Christians.
Apr 3, 2024 · Dearborn may now be a Muslim-majority city since most of the city's Arab American population is believed to be Muslim, though the percentage is unclear since the U.S. Census doesn't ask about...
Apr 29, 2024 · It's one of the few US cities whose mayor is both Muslim and Arab, the first US city to make Eid a paid holiday for city employees and one of only a handful of places in the country where the...
Sep 20, 2023 · By Liz Crampton. 09/20/2023 05:00 AM EDT. Dearborn, Mich., is home to the largest Muslim population per capita in the nation. Yet it didn’t elect its first Muslim mayor until 2022 with...
Jul 5, 2017 · Dearborn now boasts the largest and most diverse Arab community in the US, and of the city's 98,000 residents, more than 30 per cent identify as Arab-American or claim some form of Arab descent.
Feb 12, 2024 · While most early 20th-century Arab immigrants to the United States were Christians, those who moved to Dearborn in the 1920s were mainly Muslims from southern Lebanon. A history of Dearborn...
