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Alameda County

Oakland is home to more than 10,000 Yemeni-Americans, concentrated around the downtown/14th Street corridor and East Oakland, anchored by the Lighthouse Mosque — part of a Yemeni-American community whose roots trace to farmworkers who migrated north from California's Central Valley vineyards in the 1960s-80s.

Arab ancestry (ACS est.)

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Arabic spoken at home

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Limited English proficiency share

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Dominant dialect profile

Yemeni-majority in Oakland, with roots tracing to Central Valley farm labor migration in the 1960s-80s