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Originally Posted by Crawford
I don't think Census will be particularly helpful. Chaldeans are traditionally the largest ME ethnicity in Metro Detroit, Lebanese often don't identify as Arab, and Yemenis are among the largest groups.
There's no local Turkish or Persian community, so not sure why that was even listed.
The general estimate is that Metro Detroit has around 450,000 folks of ME descent. So Montreal would have the 4th highest ME population in North America (assuming only NYC, LA and Detroit have larger populations).
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How exactly is the Census not particularly helpful? The whole point of it is to provide people with numbers that are reliable so that they don't have to rely on estimates that are pulled out of nowhere.
It seems to me that you didn't even look at the numbers or the links I provided. When I wrote there were 157,742 Arabs according the ACS, this includes people who reported Lebanese origin. Yemenites are included in this number also.
Turkish and Iranian numbers were referenced because the title of the thread says Middle Eastern. I provided separate numbers for Arabs, and then gave a tally where I added non-Arabs like Assyrian, Armenians,Turks and Iranians.
Montreal has a sizeable Armenian, Iranian and Turkish population, but virtually no Assyrians, while Detroit has a large Assyrian population.
If you go by sheer numbers, only Los Angeles has more people of Middle Eastern ancestry than Montreal, due to their huge Armenian and Iranian populations.