MN Regional team
Counting Albanian Americans in Minnesota.
NAR — the National Albanian Registry — is the community-led count. 4 counted in Minnesota so far.
No NAR ambassador is seated in Minnesota yet. They need someone local organizing. Apply to be the first.
Why Minnesota matters
A real count is where the work starts.
ACS 2020-2024 estimate
850
Federal count
Community estimate
3,400–4,250
Methodology page
On NAR today
4
From Minnesota
Capture rate
0.47%
vs. ACS
As Minnesota's Albanian community becomes visible in the data systems institutions actually use, the recognition story gets stronger — for bilingual-ballot petitions in jurisdictions with significant limited-English Albanian populations, for hospital interpreter staffing, for school home-language reporting, and for university heritage programs. None of these unlock automatically from a count; they come from sustained organizing on top of one. The Census ACS stays the official federal source; NAR builds the parallel community count alongside it.
Minnesota ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 850 (2020-2024). Nationwide the Census counts 230,000 Albanian Americans while community estimates put us close to a million — and the same gap shows up here. NAR is the community-led parallel count that sits alongside the ACS, one self-attestation at a time.
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Businesses in Minnesota
1 Albanian-owned business.
Added by the owners themselves. Listing is free.
- Professional services
Saint Paul, MN
Professional services business in Saint Paul, MN.
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Be the first NAR ambassador in Minnesota.
Each state seats up to three Regional Ambassadors plus one state outreach lead. Volunteer role. Listed publicly. Reimbursed expenses for one local event a year.
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