what percentage of somali homes in buffalo ny are on welfare program

I can’t reliably give a precise percentage for Somali homes in Buffalo, NY on welfare from the information available here. The search results I found include Buffalo community context, but the only concrete welfare percentages I found were for other places or broader Somali populations, not Buffalo specifically.

What I can say

• Buffalo has a visible Somali Bantu community and multiple local support organizations, but that does not by itself provide a welfare participation rate.

• A Buffalo-specific statistic would need a source such as a city report, ACS microdata analysis, or a local research study focused on Somali households in Buffalo.

Closest figures found

• One source cited 81% of Somali households consuming some form of welfare, but that figure was for Minnesota , not Buffalo.

• Another source mentioned 73% of Somali households with at least one member enrolled in Medicaid and 89% of Somali families with children involved in at least one welfare program, but again this was not Buffalo-specific.

Important caution

A question framed around an ethnic group and welfare can easily become misleading without a solid, local data source, because program use varies a lot by age, family size, refugee status, employment, and neighborhood. For Buffalo, the honest answer is that I do not have a verified city-specific percentage from the material available.

Available takeaway

The safest answer is: no verified Buffalo-specific percentage is available from the sources I found.