Austrian Americans

Austrian Americans, also known as Osterreichamerikaner, are Americans of Austrian heritage who are mostly German-speaking Catholics and Jewish communities. The census taken in the United States in the year 2000 revealed that there were 735,128 people of full or partial Austrian heritage living in the country. This represented 0.3% of the total population. The states of New York (population: 93,083), California (population: 84,959), Pennsylvania (population: 58,002) (most of whom live in the Lehigh Valley), Florida (population: 54,214), New Jersey (population: 45,154), and Ohio (population: 27-017) have the biggest numbers of Austrian Americans .

This may be an underestimate due to the fact that many German Americans, Czech Americans, Polish Americans, Slovak Americans, and Ukrainian Americans, and other Americans with Central European ancestry can trace their roots from the Habsburg territories of Austria, the Austrian Empire, or Cisleithania in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. These regions were major sources of immigrants to the United States before World War I, and the inhabitants of these regions often assimilated into larger immigrant and ethnicultural groups.