MD Regional team
Counting Albanian Americans in Maryland.
NAR — the National Albanian Registry — is the community-led count. 19 counted in Maryland so far.
No NAR ambassador is seated in Maryland yet. They need someone local organizing. Apply to be the first.
Why Maryland matters
A real count is where the work starts.
ACS 2024 estimate
1,800
Federal count
Community estimate
7,200–9,000
Methodology page
On NAR today
19
From Maryland
Capture rate
1.06%
vs. ACS
As Maryland'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.
Maryland ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 1,800 (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 Maryland
1 Albanian organization.
Religious institutions, charities, schools, and cultural associations — free to list, claimable by the people who run them.
Businesses in Maryland
3 Albanian-owned businesses.
Added by the owners themselves. Listing is free.
- Other
Bethesda, MD
Albanian-owned business in Bethesda, MD.
- Professional services
Bethesda, MD
Professional services business in Bethesda, MD.
- Professional services
Bethesda, MD
Professional services business in Bethesda, MD.
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Be the first NAR ambassador in Maryland.
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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