Where is the largest Ukrainian community in the USA?
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.
The five counties that are home to the largest number of Ukrainian immigrants were Kings County in New York, Cook County in Illinois, Los Angeles and Sacramento counties in California, and King County in Washington.
| State | 2015 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 773 | 1,014 |
| New York | 77,824 | 74,766 |
| North Carolina | 7,372 | 9,317 |
| North Dakota | 1,436 | 1,190 |
Since early April, they have been living in Sacramento under the federal humanitarian parole system, which facilitates temporary admission into the country and provides certain benefits, such as food aid and health insurance.
Staging grounds and border crossings
From Lviv, trains transport refugees to border crossing points such as Medyka, Poland and Uzhhorod, close to the border with Slovakia and Hungary. From Medyka, most refugees continue to Przemyśl, Poland, and onward to the rest of Europe.
The majority of Ukrainian Americans, the census notes, settled in the Northeast. The state with the greatest number is Pennsylvania (129,753 reported in 1990), followed by New York (121,113), and New Jersey (73,935).
New York is home to the country's largest Ukrainian immigrant community and the most people claiming Ukrainian heritage. There are 137,764 residents of Ukrainian heritage, including 74,130 people born outside of the United States, according to Census data.
Uniting for Ukraine provides a pathway for Ukrainian citizens and their immediate family members who are outside the United States to come to the United States and stay temporarily in a 2 year period of parole.
In December 2022, the United States accepted 69refugees from Ukraine. In fiscal year 2022 - which ended September 30 - the U.S. had accepted a total of 1,610 Ukrainian refugees. The most Ukrainian refugees arrived in February of 2022, the same month that Ukraine was invaded by Russia.
Which countries are accepting the most refugees from Ukraine?
The countries receiving the largest numbers of refugees were Russia (2.9 million), Poland (1.5 million), Germany (1 million) and the Czech Republic (0.4 million). The communications chief of the UN High Commission for Human Rights called the speed of the exodus of refugees from Ukraine "phenomenal".
Ukrainians, and their families currently in Canada can apply to extend their stay for up to 3 years with the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) pathway.
Yet the department says only around 420,000 applications have been approved so far, while statistics from the Canada Border Services Agency show about 117,000 have actually reached Canada.
- Canada – 1 209 085,
- the USA – 89 2992 (more than 1,5 million by unofficial statistics:),
- Russian Federation – 1,93 million (10 million by unofficial statistics),
- Brazil – 500 thousand,
- Kazakhstan – 333 thousand,
- Moldova – 477 thousand,
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Parma is home to more than 4,000 Ukrainians, the largest such community in Ohio, with a concentration in an area of the city known as Ukrainian Village, followed by several southwestern suburbs of Cleveland.
Another wave of Ukrainians followed between World War I and World War II, after the rise of the Soviet Union in 1922. More Ukrainians migrated to the U.S. following World War II, which forcibly displaced 200,000 Ukrainians.