Table 2—
Arab American Population Demographics in California; Detroit, MI; and New Jersey Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program Registry Geographic Regions, 2000
| Characteristics | California, No. (%) | Detroit, No. (%) | New Jersey, No. (%) |
| Population | |||
| Total region population | 21,981,141 | 2,644,694 | 5,598,458 |
| Total Arab population/region percent Arab | 164 171 (0.75) | 79 360 (3.0) | 55 508 (0.99) |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 89 467 (54.5) | 41 859 (52.7) | 30 825 (55.5) |
| Female | 74 704 (45.5) | 37 501 (47.3) | 24 683 (44.5) |
| Age, y | |||
| 20–29 | 36 164 (22.0) | 20 655 (26.0) | 11 048 (19.9) |
| 30–39 | 43 631 (26.6) | 22 526 (28.4) | 16 062 (28.9) |
| 40–49 | 39 250 (23.9) | 16 923 (21.3) | 13 657 (24.6) |
| 50–59 | 23 195 (14.1) | 10 617 (13.4) | 8145 (14.7) |
| 60–69 | 15 527 (9.5) | 6050 (7.6) | 5061 (9.1) |
| 70–74 | 6404 (3.9) | 2589 (3.3) | 1535 (2.8) |
| Poverty status | |||
| Not applicable | 955 (0.6) | 235 (0.3) | 1102 (2.0) |
| ≤ poverty threshold | 20 280 (12.4) | 12 286 (15.5) | 6113 (11.0) |
| > poverty threshold | 142 936 (87.1) | 66 839 (84.2) | 48 293 (87.0) |
| Educational attainment | |||
| < high school | 11 848 (7.2) | 12 531 (15.8) | 2797 (5.0) |
| 9th–12th grade | 50 643 (30.8) | 35 085 (44.2) | 19 583 (35.3) |
| 1–4 y of college | 79 085 (48.2) | 25 061 (31.6) | 25 622 (46.2) |
| ≥ 5 y of college | 22 595 (13.8) | 6683 (8.4) | 7506 (13.5) |
| Self-reported Arab Ancestry | |||
| Arab/Arabic | 20 873 (12.7) | 9087 (11.5) | 5260 (9.5) |
| Assyrian/Chaldean | 15 032 (9.2) | 17 976 (22.7) | 421 (0.8) |
| Egyptian | 19 265 (11.7) | 1402 (1.8) | 15 677 (28.2) |
| Iraqi | 4704 (2.9) | 5643 (7.1) | 491 (0.9) |
| Lebanese | 31 090 (18.9) | 22 967 (28.9) | 7353 (13.2) |
| Palestinian | 9893 (7.3) | 2169 (2.7) | 1466 (2.6) |
| Syrian | 11 326 (6.9) | 3891 (4.9) | 8199 (14.8) |
| Other Arab | 11 962 (7.3) | 3811 (4.8) | 3175 (5.7) |
| Other/not reported | 40 026 (24.4) | 12 414 (15.6) | 13 466 (24.3) |
Source. Data source: Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.