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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...
The user’s phrasing conflates a city with a state; the relevant geography is (the state) and (the city). Minnesota is home to roughly half a million foreign‑born residents—estimates range from about 4...
There is no publicly cited dataset in the provided reporting that gives a statewide count of “natural” deaths specifically among people of Somali origin in from 2020 to the present; publishes detailed...
’s immigrant population — defined as foreign‑born residents and encompassing naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, students, temporary visa holders and people without authorizati...
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...
estimates in the provided reporting show a in people reporting in from the early 2010s to 2024, with snapshots of roughly 25,000 , ~58,800 , ~91,000 , and about 107–108,000 , but the sources conflict ...
today is home to roughly 470–475 thousand foreign‑born residents—about 8–8.5% of the state’s population—making immigrants a substantial but not majority share of the state . Estimates of the unauthori...
No authoritative source in the provided reporting gives a count of how many undocumented immigrants were " since 2025"; available reports instead offer snapshot estimates of the state's unauthorized p...
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...
has increased ’s labor supply and produced notably high labor-force participation in many measures, with Somalis concentrated in , transportation, manufacturing and hospitality while and entrepreneurs...
Available reporting shows no single, settled “” but rather a cluster of different estimates that depend on year, place ( vs national), and definition (unemployed vs out of labor force); examples inclu...
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...