WI Regional team
Counting Albanian Americans in Wisconsin.
NAR — the National Albanian Registry — is the community-led count. 3 counted in Wisconsin so far.
No NAR ambassador is seated in Wisconsin yet. They need someone local organizing. Apply to be the first.
Why Wisconsin matters
A real count is where the work starts.
ACS 2024 estimate
5,308
Federal count
Community estimate
21,232–26,540
Methodology page
On NAR today
3
From Wisconsin
Capture rate
0.06%
vs. ACS
As Wisconsin'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.
Wisconsin ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 5,308 (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 Wisconsin
1 upcoming event.
Festivals, services, fundraisers, and community gatherings the Wisconsin team is tracking.
Organizations in Wisconsin
6 Albanian organizations.
Religious institutions, charities, schools, and cultural associations — free to list, claimable by the people who run them.
- Albanian American Community of Wisconsin Cultural & community
- Albanian American Student Organization at UW-Madison Student & youth
- Albanian Breed MC Inc Other
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American Albanian Islamic Center of Wisconsin Religious institutions - Shkolla Shqipe Ismail Qemali Inc Education & Albanian schools
- Shqiptarët në Wisconsin (Albanians of Wisconsin) Cultural & community
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Be the first NAR ambassador in Wisconsin.
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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