WA Regional team
Counting Albanian Americans in Washington.
NAR — the National Albanian Registry — is the community-led count. 8 counted in Washington so far.
No NAR ambassador is seated in Washington yet. They need someone local organizing. Apply to be the first.
Why Washington matters
A real count is where the work starts.
ACS 2024 estimate
2,000
Federal count
Community estimate
8,000–10,000
Methodology page
On NAR today
8
From Washington
Capture rate
0.40%
vs. ACS
As Washington'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.
Washington ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 2,000 (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 Washington
1 Albanian organization.
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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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