More than 92,323 Bhutanese Nepalis have been resettled in the United States, with the largest single community being approximately 27,000 in Columbus, Ohio.
[7] Of the 60,000 Bhutanese - Nepali refugees that U.S. has offered to migrate in the country,[9] according to BBC News on June 20, 2010, had already 27,926 lived in USA.
[12] The community is being helped by The Hindu Temple of Minnesota, along with Lutheran and Catholic social organizations who give them materials and moral support.
The non-profit has helped Greater Cleveland immigrant families whose members often work in frontline jobs in the service industry where early in the pandemic the virus was spreading fast.
[17] In a 2018 report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for every 100,000 Bhutanese refugees, 24.4 committed suicide, almost double the rate of 12.4 for the US general population.
[19][18] According to data released in 2017 by the Pew Research Center, 33.3% of the Bhutanese American community lived under the poverty line.
[20] Bhutanese Americans own various businesses that serve the community and larger groups throughout the United States, e.g. Nebham LLC.
The Bhutanese American Association of Houston has an ESL program which provides elderly people in the community with the resources to learn English.