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Franklin County

Home to one of Ohio's oldest Arab-American communities, rooted in Lebanese-American Maronite and Melkite Catholic parishes, alongside a smaller and more recently arrived Syrian, Iraqi Arab, Egyptian, and Yemeni business community concentrated along the Northland/Cleveland Avenue and Bethel Road corridors.

Arab ancestry (ACS est.)

n/a (no county-level ACS breakout available)

Arabic spoken at home

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Limited English proficiency share

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Dominant dialect profile

Longstanding Lebanese-American Maronite/Melkite Catholic community, alongside a smaller Syrian, Iraqi Arab, Egyptian, and Yemeni population; distinct from the much larger (non-Arab) Somali-American community