Ukrainian Americans Explained

Group:Ukrainian Americans
Native Name:Українські американці
Pop:1,017,586 (0.31%)[1]
Popplace:New York City Metropolitan Area,[2] 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[3]
Langs:American English, Ukrainian, Russian, Yiddish
Rels:Predominantly Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Greek Catholic, with Protestant and Jewish minorities
Related:Other Ukrainians, Rusyn Americans, Belarusian Americans, Cossack Americans, Polish Americans, Russian Americans, and other Slavic peoples, especially East Slavs

Ukrainian Americans (Ukrainian: Українські американці|Ukrayins'ki amerykantsi) are Americans who are of 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.[1] 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;[4] and Indianapolis with 19,000.[5] [6] In 2018, the number of Ukrainian Americans surpassed 1 million.[7]

History

Large-scale Ukrainian immigration to America did not begin until the 1880s.[8]

From 1955 to 1965, St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, was constructed as a memorial honoring victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933.

The largest wave of Ukrainians came in the early 1990s, after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. Some of those emigrating from Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union were Jewish or Protestant. Many Ukrainians of the newest immigration wave settled in large cities and regional centers, forming ethnic enclaves. In addition, many Ukrainian Americans arrived by way of Canada, which has a larger Ukrainian presence.

On September 11, 2001, 11 Ukrainian Americans perished at the World Trade Center in New York City during the acts of mass terrorism committed on that day. All of their names were listed and commemorated by Ukrinform, the National News Agency of Ukraine, during the nineteenth anniversary of the attacks in 2020.[9]

Ukrainian Americans living in Northern New Jersey and the remainder of the Northeastern United States have long been politically vocal about Ukrainian affairs, often traveling to Washington, D.C., to express their concerns.[10] [11]

In Bloomingdale (near Chicago) on September 21, 2015, Filaret, the Ukrainian Orthodox Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, consecrated the first North American monument to the Revolution of Dignity's "Heavenly Hundred".[12]

In February 2022, the Pastor Right Reverend Mitred Archpriest Philip Weiner, the leader of St. Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Church in Rochester, New York, said that there were more than 40,000 Ukrainians in the Rochester Metropolitan Area, which would make it one of the largest Ukrainian American communities in the country.[13]

There are a large number of Ukrainian Protestants in the Sacramento metropolitan area who have organized support to those affected by the invasion of Ukraine through their local congregations.[14]

It is estimated that during 2022-2023, around 300,000 Ukrainians have sought asylum in the United States through various means, making the U.S. the fifth-largest destination for refugees of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and also making Ukrainians one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States that don't originate from the American continent.

Demographics

As of the 2000 U.S. Census, there were 892,922 Americans of full or partial Ukrainian descent. The New York City Metropolitan Area contains by far the largest Ukrainian community in the United States, due to historically receiving the highest number of Ukrainian immigrants.[2]

The U.S. states with the largest Ukrainian populations are as follows:

148,700
122,291
83,125
73,809
48,908[15]
47,623
The total number of people born in Ukraine is more than 275,155 residents.[16]

Ukrainian-born population

Ukrainian-born population in the U.S. since 2010:[17]

YearNumber
2010326,493
2011340,468
2012342,971
2013345,187
2014332,145
2015345,620
2016347,759
2017354,494
2018325,885
2019354,832
2020358,823
2021398,040

U.S. communities with high percentages of people of Ukrainian ancestry

The top 20 U.S. communities with the highest percentage of people claiming Ukrainian ancestry are:[18]

  1. Cass Township, Pennsylvania (Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) 14.30%
  2. Belfield, North Dakota 13.60%
  3. Gulich Township, Pennsylvania 12.70%
  4. Gilberton, Pennsylvania 12.40%
  5. Wilton, North Dakota 10.30%
  6. Lumberland, New York 9.90%
  7. Saint Clair, Pennsylvania 8.80%
  8. Soap Lake, Washington 8.10%
  9. Frackville, Pennsylvania 7.60%
  10. Olyphant, Pennsylvania and Norwegian Township, Pennsylvania 7.00%
  11. Houtzdale, Pennsylvania 6.90%
  12. Harmony Township, Pennsylvania (Beaver County, Pennsylvania) and Kerhonkson, New York 6.70%
  13. Baden, Pennsylvania and McAdoo, Pennsylvania 5.90%
  14. Branch Township, Pennsylvania and Postville, Iowa 5.70%
  15. Woodward Township, Pennsylvania (Clearfield County, Pennsylvania) and Northampton, Pennsylvania 5.60%
  16. Warren, New York and Independence, Ohio 5.50%
  17. West Leechburg, Pennsylvania 5.40%
  18. Ambridge, Pennsylvania, Mount Carmel Township, Pennsylvania, and Parma, Ohio 5.30%
  19. Ford City, Pennsylvania 5.20%
  20. Bigler Township, Pennsylvania and Kline Township, Pennsylvania 5.10%
  21. Mayfield Heights, Ohio 3.4%

U.S. communities with the highest percentage of residents born in Ukraine

Top 20 U.S. communities with the highest percentage of residents born in Ukraine are:[19]

  1. Delta Junction, AK 16.4%
  2. Deltana, AK 8.4%
  3. Hamtramck, MI 8.0%
  4. West Hollywood, CA 7.8%
  5. Lumberland, NY 6.3%
  6. Moses Lake North, WA 6.0%
  7. Soap Lake, WA 6.0%
  8. Postville, IA 5.9%
  9. Warren, MI 4.0%
  10. Chicago, IL 4.0%
  11. Webster, NY 4.8%
  12. Peaceful Valley, WA 4.8%
  13. Pikesville, MD 4.5%
  14. Kerhonkson, NY 3.9%
  15. North Highlands, CA 3.6%
  16. Rancho Cordova, CA 3.3%
  17. Oak Park, MI 3.0%
  18. Flying Hills, PA 3.2%
  19. Waverly, NE 3.2%
  20. Fair Lawn, NJ 3.1%
  21. Buffalo Grove, IL 2.8%
  22. Feasterville-Trevose, PA 2.6%
  23. Smallwood, NY 2.5%
  24. Solvay, NY 2.5%
  25. North Port, FL 2.4%
  26. Detroit, MI 1.0%

Notable people

See main article: List of Ukrainian Americans.

See also

Sources

Further reading

. Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak. Ukrainian Bishop, American Church: Constantine Bohachevsky and the Ukrainian Catholic Church. 2018. Washington. Catholic University of America Press. 9780813231594.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Census 2021 ACS 5-Year Estimates. U.S. Census Bureau.
  2. Web site: Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2010 Supplemental Table 2. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 2011-09-05.
  3. Web site: Ameredia: Ukrainian American Demographics. www.ameredia.com. Feb 28, 2021.
  4. Web site: Ukrainian Immigrants in California . 2023-01-05 . Public Policy Institute of California . en-US.
  5. Web site: Selected social characteristics in the United States: 2010 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates . U.S. State Census Bureau . 2010 . January 17, 2016 . https://archive.today/20200212212624/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_10_1YR_DP02&prodType=table . February 12, 2020 . dead .
  6. Web site: XLS. Persons of Ukrainian Ancestry: States ordered by total number of Ukrainians. Informed Decisions, Inc.. 2001. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090228160423/http://inform-decisions.com/ukrstat/html/tables/states2.xls. February 28, 2009.
  7. Web site: Ukrainians in the United States have reached 1 million. Oleh. Wolowyna. The Ukrainian Weekly. May 11, 2018 . Feb 28, 2021.
  8. [Paul Robert Magocsi]
  9. Web site: З нагоди роковин теракту в США 11 вересня згадали загиблих українського походження . Victims of Ukrainian descent were commemorated on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States . . 2020-09-11 . 2021-09-11 . 2021-09-11 . https://archive.today/20210911210437/https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-diaspora/3097955-z-nagodi-rokovin-teraktu-v-ssa-11-veresna-zgadali-zagiblih-ukrainskogo-pohodzenna.html . Ukrainian.
  10. Web site: Ukrainian president greets North Jersey residents at D.C. rally. Minjae Park. North Jersey Media Group. 2014-09-18. 2014-09-18.
  11. Web site: North Jersey Ukrainians pitch in for wounded countrymen. Mary Diduch. North Jersey Media Group. August 24, 2015. August 31, 2015.
  12. News: Monument to Heavenly Hundred unveiled in Chicago . September 21, 2015 . UAWire.org . February 21, 2020.
  13. News: Wright . Wendy . Rochester's Ukrainian community on 'pins and needles' . March 23, 2022 . spectrumlocalnews.com . March 24, 2022.
  14. News: Sacramento's dense population of Ukrainian immigrants are sending help back home . en . NPR.org . 2023-01-05.
  15. Web site: Total ancestry categories tallied for people with one or more ancestry categories reported: 2009 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates . U.S. State Census Bureau . 2009 . January 17, 2016 . https://archive.today/20150215231840/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_09_1YR_B04003&prodType=table . February 15, 2015 . dead .
  16. Web site: Table FBP-1. Profile of Selected Demographic and Social Characteristics: 2000. 2007-08-15. 2000. U.S. Census Bureau.
  17. Web site: American FactFinder - Results. U.S. Census. Bureau. factfinder.census.gov. 2018-04-23. https://archive.today/20200214060704/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_15_1YR_B05006&prodType=table. 2020-02-14. dead.
  18. Web site: Ancestry Map of Ukrainian Communities . Epodunk.com . 2008-08-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130523064728/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Ukrainian.html . 2013-05-23 . dead .
  19. Web site: Top 101 cities with the most residents born in Ukraine (population 500+) . city-data.com . 2008-08-12.

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