OH Regional team
Counting Albanian Americans in Ohio.
NAR — the National Albanian Registry — is the community-led count. 10 counted in Ohio so far.
No NAR ambassador is seated in Ohio yet. They need someone local organizing. Apply to be the first.
Why Ohio matters
A real count is where the work starts.
ACS 2024 estimate
4,332
Federal count
Community estimate
17,328–21,660
Methodology page
On NAR today
10
From Ohio
Capture rate
0.23%
vs. ACS
As Ohio'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.
Ohio ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 4,332 (2024). Nationwide the Census counts 224,000 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.
What's happening in Ohio
3 upcoming events.
Festivals, services, fundraisers, and community gatherings the Ohio team is tracking.
- Sun, Aug 30 · 11:00 AM–6:00 PM Festival
One World Day 2026 at Cleveland Cultural Gardens
80th annual One World Day at Cleveland Cultural Gardens. Albanian Cultural Garden featured. 35,000+ attendees expected.
Cleveland Cultural Gardens (Albanian Cultural Garden) · Cleveland
- Sat, Sep 5 · 11:00 AM–1:00 PM Cultural
St. Mother Teresa Feast Day at the Albanian Cultural Garden
Annual gathering at the Mother Teresa statue in Cleveland's Albanian Cultural Garden marking her September 5 feast day.
Albanian Cultural Garden, Rockefeller Park · Cleveland
- Sat, Nov 28 · 6:30 PM–11:00 PM Cultural
Festa e Flamurit Banquet
AAA-Cleveland's annual Albanian Independence Day banquet — dinner, live music, valle dancing, kuq e zi flag ceremony.
Venue announced via Albanian-American Association of Cleveland · Cleveland
Organizations in Ohio
7 Albanian organizations.
Religious institutions, charities, schools, and cultural associations — free to list, claimable by the people who run them.
- Albanian American Association Of Cleveland Ohio Cultural & community
- Albanian Cultural Center of Cleveland Cultural & community
- Albanian Heritage Foundation (Columbus OH) Education & Albanian schools
- Mission Korca Nfp Religious institutions
- Shoqata Akademike dhe Profesionale Shqiptare (SAPS) Student & youth
- St. E. Premte (St. Paraskevi) Albanian Orthodox Church Religious institutions
- Teach For Kosova Charities & foundations
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