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Karen Americans
Karen Americans (S'gaw Karen: ကညီအမဲရကၤဖိ) are Americans of full or partial Karen ancestry. They are a recent but rapidly growing immigrant population in the United States. Many Karen who emigrate are refugees as a result of violence in their homeland. Many come either from their traditional homeland of Kawthoolei in Myanmar or from refugee camps in Thailand.
Minnesota had more than 20,000 Karen residents in 2025, making it the state with the largest Karen community. Other states with significant populations are California, Texas, New York, and Indiana.
Karen first started arriving in the United States en masse during the mid-2000s and now form a significant minority in several cities. The growth of Karen Americans is part of the larger growth of Burmese Americans in the United States.
The Karenni, a related subgroup of the Karen, are sometimes included in official statistics of Karen Americans and other times are treated as a separate ethnicity.
The first Karen refugees started arriving in the United States in the late 1990s, but only during the mid-2000s did Karen people start emigrating en masse. Resettlement of Burmese refugees peaked in October 2006 to August 2007, when 12,800 Karen refugees were resettled in the United States.
In November 2017, over 9,000 Karen people gathered in Washington, D.C., to both thank the United States government for granting them settlement and at the same time protest the Burmese government's treatment of the Karen and other minorities, especially the ongoing persecution of Rohingya people and the Trump-era policies on immigration. Karen people have protested in the past in Washington, D.C., over the treatment of Karen by the Myanmar government.
As of June 2022 there were 75,218 Karen refugees that had been resettled in the United States, with an additional 13,509 of the Karenni ethnicity. These numbers may be inaccurate as the statistics cover only Karen who came after 2000 and counted as refugees.
The state with the largest Karen population, most Karen who live in Minnesota reside in the Twin Cities area. As of 2025, there are over 20,000 Karen people living in Minnesota. Among Minnesota public K-12 students, Karen is the fifth most commonly spoken home language: it's spoken by 4,700 students, more than half of whom live in St. Paul.
Karen Americans
Karen Americans (S'gaw Karen: ကညီအမဲရကၤဖိ) are Americans of full or partial Karen ancestry. They are a recent but rapidly growing immigrant population in the United States. Many Karen who emigrate are refugees as a result of violence in their homeland. Many come either from their traditional homeland of Kawthoolei in Myanmar or from refugee camps in Thailand.
Minnesota had more than 20,000 Karen residents in 2025, making it the state with the largest Karen community. Other states with significant populations are California, Texas, New York, and Indiana.
Karen first started arriving in the United States en masse during the mid-2000s and now form a significant minority in several cities. The growth of Karen Americans is part of the larger growth of Burmese Americans in the United States.
The Karenni, a related subgroup of the Karen, are sometimes included in official statistics of Karen Americans and other times are treated as a separate ethnicity.
The first Karen refugees started arriving in the United States in the late 1990s, but only during the mid-2000s did Karen people start emigrating en masse. Resettlement of Burmese refugees peaked in October 2006 to August 2007, when 12,800 Karen refugees were resettled in the United States.
In November 2017, over 9,000 Karen people gathered in Washington, D.C., to both thank the United States government for granting them settlement and at the same time protest the Burmese government's treatment of the Karen and other minorities, especially the ongoing persecution of Rohingya people and the Trump-era policies on immigration. Karen people have protested in the past in Washington, D.C., over the treatment of Karen by the Myanmar government.
As of June 2022 there were 75,218 Karen refugees that had been resettled in the United States, with an additional 13,509 of the Karenni ethnicity. These numbers may be inaccurate as the statistics cover only Karen who came after 2000 and counted as refugees.
The state with the largest Karen population, most Karen who live in Minnesota reside in the Twin Cities area. As of 2025, there are over 20,000 Karen people living in Minnesota. Among Minnesota public K-12 students, Karen is the fifth most commonly spoken home language: it's spoken by 4,700 students, more than half of whom live in St. Paul.