Ukrainian Americans

Ukrainian Americans
Українські американці (Ukrainian)
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, Pentecostalist and Jewish minorities
Related ethnic groups
Rusyn Americans, Belarusian Americans, Polish Americans, Crimean Tatar Americans

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.