Number of Czechs and Slovaks in the USA: Census 2000 / Pocet Cechu a Slovaku v USA: census 2000

The 2000 United States census counted 1,262,527 people of Czech ethnicity (0.4% of the US population), 797,764 of Slovak ethnicity (0.3%), and 441,401 persons that listed themselves as Czechoslovakian (0.2% of US population). That’s over 2.5 million of our brothers and sisters living the US – not bad! The biggest US ethnic group are the Germans (15.2%), followed by the Irish (10.8%) and the English (8.7%).

CZ: Ve Spojenych Statech zije pres vice nez 2,5 milionu Cechu a Slovaku (2000), coz je 0.9% celkove Americke populace; tak to neni spatne! Nejvetsi etnickou skupinou jsou Nemci, pote Irove a Anglicane.

These are the largest Czech/Czechoslovak/Slovak communities in the US:

Czech:
1. Texas- 155,855
2. Illinois- 123,708
3. Wisconsin- 97,220
4. Minnesota-85,056
5. Nebraska- 83,462

Czechoslovakian:
1. California- 41,216
2. New York- 31,878
3. Texas- 31,874
4. Pennsylvania- 31,456
5. Illinois- 28,753

Slovak:

1. Pennsylvania- 243,009
2. Ohio- 157,125
3. New Jersey- 46,264
4. Illinois- 42,966
5. New York- 37,863

Source: http://www.euroamericans.net/census2000.htm