Ukrainian Americans
Українські американці (Ukrainian) | |
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| Total population | |
| 1,258,979 (0.38%) 2023 estimate, self reported | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| New York City Metropolitan Area,Rochester Metropolitan Area, Rust Belt (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois), Midwest (Minnesota, North Dakota), Greater Los Angeles Area, Sacramento, Alaska, Washington state, and the Pacific Northwest in general, Maryland, Florida, Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia | |
| Languages | |
| Predominantly English and Ukrainian Occasionally Russian and Yiddish | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Greek Catholic, with Protestant, Baptist, Pentecostal and Jewish minorities | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Rusyn Americans, Russian Americans, Belarusian Americans, Polish Americans, Crimean Tatar Americans |
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Ukrainian Americans are Americans who are of full or partial Ukrainian ancestry. According to U.S. census estimates, in 2021 there were 1,017,586 Americans of Ukrainian descent representing 0.3% of the American population. The Ukrainian population of the United States is thus the second largest outside the former Eastern Bloc; only Canada has a larger Ukrainian community under this definition. According to the 2000 U.S. census, the metropolitan areas with the largest numbers of Ukrainian Americans are: New York City with 160,000; Philadelphia with 60,000; Chicago with 46,000; Detroit with 45,000; Los Angeles with 36,000; Cleveland with 26,000; Sacramento with 20,000; and Indianapolis with 19,000. In 2018, the number of Ukrainian Americans surpassed 1 million.
Despite the United States’s much larger total population, Ukrainian Americans are outnumbered in absolute numbers by their Canadian counterparts. They are one of the few, if not the only, ethnic groups in North America for which this is the case. In contrast, most other groups—including Indian, Chinese, Filipino, and Indigenous communities—represent a smaller share of the population in Canada but remain more numerous in the United States due to its much larger overall population.