166,088 (2021 American Community Survey; 0.05% of U.S.'s population)[1]
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Chicago • New York City and Northern New Jersey • Houston • Detroit • New Orleans • San Francisco Bay Area • Southern California
Languages
English, Arabic
Religion
Islam, Christianity
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Palestinian Americans (Arabic: فلسطينيو أمريكا) are Americans who are of full or partial Palestinian descent. It is unclear when the first Palestinian immigrants arrived in the United States, but it is believed that they arrived during the early 1900s.
Numbering 170,000 individuals, the Palestinian community in the United States is small, making up less than half a tenth of a percent of the U.S. population. However, this number could be underestimated as Palestinian Americans may consider themselves as just Arab (600,000 people identify themselves as "Arab" or "Other Arab" on the Census), or some Palestinian immigrants with less immersion in the English language may not be able to fill out the Census form with accurate information. There is not an Arab or Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) category on the Census, though this notion has been considered.
The Palestinian community is concentrated in the New York City, Houston, Chicago, and Detroit metropolitan areas, with other populations in the Los Angeles and San Francisco metropolitan areas. Some Palestinians have emigrated to smaller metropolitan or micropolitan/rural areas such as Gallup, New Mexico, in the late 20th and 21st century.
^"B04001:Total Ancestry Reported: 2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
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