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Neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
A "March Against Minnesota Fraud" organized by conservative influencer Jake Lang was scheduled to begin at Minneapolis City Hall on Jan. 17, with organizers describing it as a peaceful rally calling f...
Jake Lang’s Jan. 17 “March Against Minnesota Fraud” in Minneapolis was widely anticipated, heavily policed and the subject of community alarm, but the available reporting in this packet does not docum...
Minnesota hosts by far the largest Somali community in the United States—estimates in recent reporting put the state’s Somali population between roughly 64,000 and 107,000, with multiple outlets citin...
Reporting shows two overlapping but distinct threads: long-term public-safety and socioeconomic challenges in Minneapolis neighborhoods with large Somali populations, notably Cedar‑Riverside, document...
Minnesota is widely reported as home to the nation’s largest Somali population — U.S. Census/ACS–based aggregations place the state’s Somali population around 61,000–64,000 in recent 2025 compilations...
Minnesota hosts the largest Somali population in the U.S., concentrated in the Twin Cities, where Somalis own hundreds of small businesses and a network of community nonprofits and advocacy groups . R...
The best available 2025 city-level estimates point to Minneapolis as by far the largest concentration of Somalia-born residents in Minnesota, followed at a distance by St. Paul and St. Cloud; smaller ...
Data and reporting show Somali-American voting in 2024 was not monolithic: in Minnesota — the country’s largest Somali community — support for the Democratic presidential ticket fell relative to 2020 ...
Minnesota’s Somali population remains concentrated in specific Minneapolis neighborhoods — most notably Cedar‑Riverside (often called “Little Mogadishu”) and parts of the Lake Street corridor around K...
City-level source estimates show Minneapolis and St. Paul each hosting substantial but smaller direct city populations of Somali residents in 2025 (Minneapolis ~19,870; St. Paul ~6,669) while Columbus...
Somali Minnesotans are a large, long-established community concentrated in the Twin Cities that local officials and analysts say contribute substantially through work, entrepreneurship and consumer ac...
Available reporting shows Somali Americans make measurable economic contributions at local and national levels: a 2024 University of Minnesota study (reported by multiple outlets) estimated Somali Min...
Somali workers in Minnesota are concentrated in a handful of sectors: home health care and health services, food and animal food manufacturing (including meatpacking), transportation/warehousing, reta...
Available official statewide crime data tools exist but do not break out crime rates by neighborhood ethnicity; local reporting links higher crime in some Minneapolis neighborhoods like Cedar‑Riversid...
Jake Lang has publicly both made racist, anti‑Muslim and antisemitic statements and — according to multiple accounts of his speeches — explicitly said “I am a racist,” meaning that, based on available...
Minnesota hosts the largest Somali population in the United States, concentrated primarily in the Twin Cities metro — especially Minneapolis’s Cedar‑Riverside (“Little Mogadishu”) and parts of St. Pau...
Available public data sources list city and state crime dashboards but do not publish neighborhood crime rates explicitly tied to demographic groups; Minneapolis crime maps and Minnesota crime statist...
The largest neighborhood concentration of Somalia-born residents in the Twin Cities remains Cedar‑Riverside in south Minneapolis, historically the arrival point and cultural hub for newcomers . In St....
From the early 1990s onward, large numbers of Somalis fled civil war, famine and drought and were admitted to the United States largely as refugees; many resettled in Minnesota because of established ...
Minnesota contains the largest Somali population in the United States, with state-level estimates ranging from roughly 61,000 to more than 107,000 people of Somali descent; most sources point to heavy...