Shtëpi LajmeShqiptarët në New Jersey: Udhëzues dhe Drejtori Komunitare

Shtëpi LajmeShqiptarët në New Jersey: Komuniteti

Shqiptarët në New Jersey: Udhëzues dhe Drejtori Komunitare

Shqiptarët në New Jersey: zbuloni Garfield, Bergen County dhe komunitetet në të gjithë shtetin, si dhe biznese të verifikuara me pronarë shqiptarë në drejtorinë tonë.

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Shkruar nga Dardanë Halimi

22 Qershor, 2026

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New Jersey is home to a large and growing Albanian community, concentrated in the northern part of the state, with a second cluster in central New Jersey. About 18,300 residents report Albanian ancestry (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024), the fourth-largest count of any state. Bergen County has about a third of them, and the city of Garfield has the largest count of any New Jersey municipality. New Jersey’s proximity to New York City has made it a natural extension of the larger tri-state Albanian community, and many families move between the two states for work, worship, and socializing. ALB Connection lists verified Albanian-owned businesses across New Jersey to help the community connect and support one another.

TLDR

New Jersey has the fourth-largest Albanian population of any state, about 18,300 by Census ancestry count (ACS 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024), concentrated in the northern part of the state
Key areas by Census count: Bergen County (about 6,200, led by Garfield with about 1,200 and Lodi with about 600), Passaic County (about 2,600), and Monmouth and Middlesex counties in central New Jersey
Komuniteti përfshin familje nga Shqipëria, Kosova, Maqedonia e Veriut dhe Mali i Zi.
Sipërmarrësit shqiptarë janë të shquar në piceri, ndërtim, pasuri të paluajtshme dhe shërbime profesionale.
Drejtoria e ALB Connection në New Jersey ju lidh me biznese të verifikuara në pronësi të shqiptarëve në të gjithë shtetin

Ku jetojnë shqiptarët në New Jersey

Garfield & Lodi

Garfield, in Bergen County, has the largest Albanian population of any New Jersey municipality in Census data: about 1,200 residents reporting Albanian ancestry (margin of error roughly 500), or between 3 and 4 percent of the city (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024, Table B04006). Neighboring Lodi adds about 600 more (margin of error roughly 370), so the two towns together form the clearest Albanian cluster in the state.

Garfield is also home to one of New Jersey’s Albanian religious institutions. The Albanian American Islamic Center of New York and New Jersey, a non-profit religious organization established in 1962, lists two locations on its website: one on Albemarle Road in Brooklyn and one at 43 Monroe Street in Garfield. The center describes its mission as providing religious, educational and social services to the Albanian American Islamic community.

Nearby Paterson, in Passaic County, is often named alongside Garfield, but the Census does not show a large resident community there today. The estimate for Paterson is under 100 people, with a margin of error larger than the estimate itself. Paterson’s Albanian connection is a house of worship rather than a neighborhood, as the next section explains.

Clifton, Paterson & Southern Passaic County

Passaic County has the second-largest Albanian population in New Jersey, about 2,600 by Census ancestry count (margin of error roughly 900). Within the county, the largest estimates are in Pompton Lakes (about 660), Clifton (about 500), Haledon (about 375), Hawthorne (about 340) and Wayne (about 340). All of these are small-sample estimates with wide margins of error, so read them as a rough guide to where families live rather than as exact counts. The estimate for the city of Passaic is close to zero.

Paterson is a special case. Fewer than 100 residents report Albanian ancestry, yet the city hosts an Albanian mosque run by the Albanian Associated Fund. In a brief filed in federal court, the U.S. Department of Justice described the Albanian Associated Fund as a religious community of Muslims of Albanian ancestry with approximately 200 member families that operates a mosque in Paterson. In practice, Paterson is a place Albanian families from the surrounding towns travel to for worship more than a place where they live.

Wayne & Northern Passaic County

Wayne (about 340 residents reporting Albanian ancestry, margin of error roughly 250) and Pompton Lakes (about 660, margin of error roughly 480) are the main northern Passaic County towns in Census data.

Wayne is also where the best-documented episode in New Jersey’s Albanian community history took place. According to court filings, the Albanian Associated Fund bought land in Wayne on October 5, 2001 to build a new mosque, saying that a substantial number of Albanian Muslim families had moved to Wayne and the surrounding area over recent decades and that its Paterson building was no longer adequate. After years without a decision on its application, the township moved to take the land by eminent domain for open space, and in July 2006 the congregation sued under the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. On October 1, 2007 the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled in the congregation’s favor and blocked the seizure, according to Becket, the legal group that represented it.

The case is a useful marker of how the community has moved over time: from a house of worship in an older industrial city toward the suburbs where many families now live.

Qarku Bergen

Bergen County has the largest Albanian population of any New Jersey county, about 6,200 by Census ancestry count, led by Garfield, Lodi (about 600), Cliffside Park (about 550) and Fair Lawn (about 450). Bergen County’s central location and strong job market make it attractive to Albanian professionals and business owners.

Nju Xhersi Qendror

Central New Jersey is the state’s second Albanian cluster, and it is larger than many people expect. Monmouth County has about 1,800 residents reporting Albanian ancestry and Middlesex County about 1,700 (ACS 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024), which makes them the third and fourth-largest counties in the state after Bergen and Passaic. The largest town estimates are in Old Bridge (about 650), Sayreville (about 500) and Manalapan (about 390), all with wide margins of error. There is no single Albanian neighborhood here; families are spread across suburban townships.

Një histori e shkurtër

The Albanian story in New Jersey is closely tied to the broader New York area immigration experience, and most of it is recent.

The standard reference article on Albanian Americans (the Gale encyclopedia entry reproduced by EveryCulture) places the first Albanian settlements of the fillimi i viteve 1900 in Massachusetts, in towns such as Worcester, Natick and Southbridge, and does not describe an early colony in New Jersey. By the 1990 Census, however, the same source lists New Jersey fourth among the states for Albanian population, behind New York, Massachusetts and Michigan, the same rank it holds today behind New York, Michigan and Massachusetts.

Religious institutions are the clearest trail the community has left. The Albanian American Islamic Center of New York and New Jersey dates its founding to 1962 and today has a location in Garfield. A separate congregation, the Albanian Associated Fund, operates a mosque in Paterson; a federal court filing in the 2000s put its membership at about 200 families and described Albanian families moving out to Wayne and the surrounding suburbs over the preceding decades.

In the spring of 1999 New Jersey became the front door for Kosovar refugees. On May 5, 1999 the first 450 refugees landed at McGuire Air Force Base and were taken to neighboring Fort Dix under Operation Provide Refuge. Over the following ten weeks, 4,045 refugees received health screening and services at Fort Dix, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, before resettlement in communities around the country; another 5,303 entered through JFK Airport in New York. In all, 13,989 Kosovar refugees were admitted to the United States under the program, which was declared complete on July 16, 1999. The sources do not record how many of those families stayed in New Jersey.

Since then the Census count has kept rising, from about 11,000 in the ACS 5-year estimates for 2006 to 2010 to about 18,300 in the estimates for 2020 to 2024.

Today, New Jersey’s Albanian community includes families from Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro, united by language, culture, and the shared experience of building a life in America.

Jeta Komunitare

Community life for Albanian New Jerseyans runs through a small number of institutions in the state and a larger number just across the Hudson and the Delaware.

Xhamitë are the Albanian institutions with a confirmed home in New Jersey. The Albanian American Islamic Center of New York and New Jersey has a location at 43 Monroe Street in Garfield, and the Albanian Associated Fund operates a mosque in Paterson. Both serve families with roots in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro.

Orthodox families look outside the state. The Albanian Archdiocese of the Orthodox Church in America lists no parish in New Jersey; its nearest parishes are St. Nicholas in Jamaica Estates, Queens, and St. John Chrysostom and SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.

Catholic families have an Albanian-language parish within reach in Westchester County, New York: Our Lady of Shkodra in Hartsdale, where the Archdiocese of New York lists every Mass as celebrated in Albanian.

Food businesses are the part of community life most visible to outsiders. Albanian-owned pizzerias, restaurants, bakeries and cafes appear throughout our New Jersey directory, and cafes in particular double as informal meeting places where news is exchanged over coffee.

Evente kulturore, above all Albanian Independence Day and Flag Day on November 28, bring families together each year. See our Kalendari i ngjarjeve në Shqipëri for dates, and our drejtoria e organizatave shqiptaro-amerikane for groups active in the tri-state area.

Popullsia Shqiptare në New Jersey

Nju Xhersi është shtëpia e një prej komuniteteve më të mëdha shqiptaro-amerikane në Shtetet e Bashkuara. Sipas Anketës së Komunitetit Amerikan të Byrosë së Regjistrimit të Popullsisë në SHBA (Vlerësime 5-vjeçare 2020-2024, Tabela B04006), afërsisht 18,300 banorë të New Jersey-t raportojnë prejardhje shqiptare, duke e vendosur shtetin midis katër shteteve më të mira në vend, pas vetëm Nju Jorkut, Miçiganit dhe Masaçusetsit.

I uritur? Gjeni restorante shqiptare pranë jush, i kërkueshëm sipas qytetit ose kodit postar.

The community is concentrated in the northern part of the state, particularly Bergen County (about 6,200) and Passaic County (about 2,600), followed by Monmouth (about 1,800) and Middlesex (about 1,700). The largest municipal counts are in Garfield, Pompton Lakes, Old Bridge, Lodi, Cliffside Park, Sayreville and Clifton, all with large margins of error. The Census undercounts Albanians because ancestry is self-reported and optional, only two ancestries per person are tabulated, many Albanians from Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro are recorded under other ancestries or under none, and later generations often stop reporting it. Many families trace their roots to earlier waves of immigration, while newer arrivals from Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia continue to settle across the region.

Për një ndarje të plotë shtet për shtet dhe një hartë interaktive të vendeve ku jetojnë shqiptarët në të gjithë vendin, shihni udhëzuesin tonë për Popullsia shqiptare në Shtetet e Bashkuara.

Keni nevojë për ndihmë ligjore? Shfletoni direktorinë tonë të Avokatët dhe avokatët shqiptarë në SHBA për të gjetur një avokat që flet shqip.

Gjeni Biznese me Pronësi Shqiptare në New Jersey

Sipërmarrësit shqiptarë janë një forcë e madhe ekonomike në New Jersey. Nga piceritë dhe restorantet te kompanitë e ndërtimit, firmat ligjore dhe agjencitë e pasurive të paluajtshme, bizneset në pronësi të shqiptarëve u shërbejnë komuniteteve në të gjithë shtetin. Për një vështrim kombëtar mbi rritjen e sektorit, shihni faqen tonë të internetit. Raporti i vitit 2026 për Gjendjen e Bizneseve me Pronësi Shqiptare në Amerikë.Kategoritë kryesore të biznesit në New Jersey përfshijnë:

Restorante dhe Pica
Ndërtim & Tregti
Pronë Immoblie
Shërbime Juridike
Shërbime Automobilistike

Shfletoni të gjitha bizneset shqiptare në New Jersey

Keni një biznes shqiptar në New Jersey?

Nëse drejtoni një biznes në pronësi të një shqiptari në New Jersey, listojeni atë falas në ALB Connection. Bëjeni më të lehtë për komunitetin t'ju gjejë dhe t'ju mbështesë. Shtoni listën tuaj sot.

Pyetje të shpeshta

Sa shqiptarë jetojnë në New Jersey?

About 18,300 New Jersey residents report Albanian ancestry, with a margin of error of roughly 2,200 (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024, Table B04006), the fourth-largest state count. The Census undercounts Albanians because ancestry is self-reported and optional, only two ancestries per person are tabulated, and many Albanians from Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro are recorded under other ancestries or under none, so the true figure is higher. Northern New Jersey, particularly Passaic and Bergen Counties, has one of the highest concentrations of Albanians in the country.

Ku është komuniteti më i madh shqiptar në New Jersey?

Garfield, in Bergen County, has the largest Census count of any New Jersey municipality (about 1,200), and the Garfield, Lodi and Clifton area along the Bergen and Passaic county line is the center of Albanian life in New Jersey. Other towns with sizable Census estimates include Lodi, Cliffside Park and Fair Lawn in Bergen County and Pompton Lakes in Passaic County.

Pse kaq shumë shqiptarë kanë piceri në New Jersey?

Familjet shqiptare kanë qenë në biznesin e picave në New Jersey për dekada të tëra. Tradita filloi si një rrugë drejt pronësisë së një biznesi të vogël për emigrantët e rinj, piceritë kërkonin kapital modest, shpërblenin punën e palodhur dhe mund të ishin operacione familjare. Me kalimin e kohës, u bë një specializim i komunitetit, me njohuri dhe receta të transmetuara midis familjeve dhe brezave.

A ka restorante shqiptare në New Jersey?

Yes. Beyond pizza shops, New Jersey has Albanian-owned restaurants and bakeries serving traditional dishes like byrek, qofte, tavë kosi, and grilled meats. Start your search in Garfield, Lodi and the surrounding Bergen and Passaic county towns, where the largest Albanian populations live.

Si mund të gjej biznese shqiptare në New Jersey?

ALB Connection mban një drejtori të verifikuar të bizneseve në pronësi të shqiptarëve në të gjithë New Jersey-n. Vizitoni faqen tonë të internetit. Drejtoria e biznesit në Nju Xhersi për të kërkuar sipas qytetit ose kategorisë.

Për një kontekst më të gjerë demografik, shihni Regjistrimin e SHBA-së, bazuar në Anketën e Komunitetit Amerikan. Renditja e popullsisë së Shqipërisë përpiluar nga Neilsberg dhe Laboratori themelor i Harvard Kennedy School Growth Lab Profilizimi Statistikor i Shqiptaro-Amerikanëve.

Eksploroni komunitetet shqiptare në qytete dhe shtete të tjera të SHBA-së:

Gati për të blerë ose shitur një shtëpi në Garden State? Punoni me kompani të besueshme Agjentët e pasurive të patundshme shqiptarë në SHBA duke shërbyer New Jersey-n dhe zonën e madhe të New York-ut.

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Autor: Dardanë Halimi

Dardanë Halimi është një shkrimtare dhe profesioniste e komunikimit me titull magjistër në Shkrim, Retorikë dhe Komunikim Teknik nga Universiteti James Madison. Puna e saj përqendrohet në tregimin e historive, përmbajtjen digjitale, arsimin e lartë dhe komunikimin strategjik, me përvojë në shkrimin për organizata akademike, jofitimprurëse dhe marketingu si në Shtetet e Bashkuara ashtu edhe në Kosovë.