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National Albanian Registry United States of America

OR Regional team

Counting Albanian Americans in Oregon.

NAR — the National Albanian Registry — is the community-led count. 0 counted in Oregon so far.

No NAR ambassador is seated in Oregon yet. Apply to be the first.

Why Oregon matters

A real count is where the work starts.

ACS 2024 estimate

550

Federal count

Community estimate

2,200–2,750

Methodology page

On NAR today

0

From Oregon

Capture rate

vs. ACS

As Oregon'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.

Oregon ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 550 (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.

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Organizations in Oregon

2 Albanian organizations.

Religious institutions, charities, schools, and cultural associations — free to list, claimable by the people who run them.

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Be the first NAR ambassador in Oregon.

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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