Metro Detroit has the country's largest Arabic-speaking population

• It's now the seventh-most common non-English language spoken at home.
• More Americans speak Arabic than German and Italian.

Zoom in: The Detroit metro has the country's largest concentration of Arabic speakers, with 4.7% of the population age 5 and older speaking Arabic at home.

• Only five other metro areas with more than 250,000 people have Arabic-speaking populations that exceed 1% of the total population.

Between the lines: Decades of immigration to cities like Dearborn, Hamtramck, Warren, Sterling Heights and Troy have established Arabic-speaking networks and organizations like the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, which work to assist Metro Detroit residents.