The Center for New North Carolinians

Immigrant Demographics of Guilford County


Regions of the World that Contribute to our Local Population

 

Eastern Europe & the former Soviet Union

Former Yugoslavia (including Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia: Bosnians, and others from former Yugoslavia have been arriving since 1994 as refugees. There are around 2,000 people who have been resettled here.

Russia: Greensboro has been a resettlement site in the last few years for approximately 250 Russian and Ukrainian refugees, most of them Jewish.

Albanians and Kosovars: In the last few years a few families totaling less than 200 people have been resettled in Guilford as refugees. Some others have come as secondary migrants.

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