UT Regional team
Counting Albanian Americans in Utah.
NAR — the National Albanian Registry — is the community-led count. 0 counted in Utah so far.
No NAR ambassador is seated in Utah yet. Apply to be the first.
Why Utah matters
A real count is where the work starts.
ACS 2024 estimate
350
Federal count
Community estimate
1,400–1,750
Methodology page
On NAR today
0
From Utah
Capture rate
—
vs. ACS
As Utah'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.
Utah ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 350 (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.
Organizations in Utah
1 Albanian organization.
Religious institutions, charities, schools, and cultural associations — free to list, claimable by the people who run them.
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