DC Regional team
Counting Albanian Americans in District of Columbia.
NAR — the National Albanian Registry — is the community-led count. 8 counted in District of Columbia so far.
No NAR ambassador is seated in District of Columbia yet. They need someone local organizing. Apply to be the first.
Why District of Columbia matters
A real count is where the work starts.
ACS 2024 estimate
850
Federal count
Community estimate
3,400–4,250
Methodology page
On NAR today
8
From District of Columbia
Capture rate
0.94%
vs. ACS
As District of Columbia'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.
District of Columbia ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 850 (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 District of Columbia
3 Albanian organizations.
Religious institutions, charities, schools, and cultural associations — free to list, claimable by the people who run them.
Businesses in District of Columbia
1 Albanian-owned business.
Added by the owners themselves. Listing is free.
- Other
Washington, DC
Albanian-owned business in Washington, DC.
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