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The growth and concentration of the Somali population in Minnesota from 2010 to 2025, including settlement patterns, migration, and demographic characteristics.
The most reliable public data show that 6,320 refugees from Somalia were resettled in Minnesota during Barack Obama’s two presidential terms (Jan. 2009–Jan. 2017), while roughly 54,000 Somali refugees...
Two parallel threads of official reporting and news coverage show that Minnesota received at least tens of thousands of Somali refugees after 1990 — administrative tallies put total Somali refugee arr...
The American Community Survey (ACS) estimates that a slight majority of Minnesotans of Somali background were born in the United States — roughly “almost 58%” U.S.-born versus about 42% born abroad, a...
Between 2010 and 2025 Minnesota’s Somali population remained concentrated in the Twin Cities metro and surrounding counties, expanding markedly in the 1990s–2000s and continuing to grow into the 2010s...