Slovenian immigrants began arriving in Cleveland in the 1880s, first in Newburgh Heights and later in what is now the St. Clair–Superior neighborhood. U.S. Census data for 1910 lists 14,332 Slovenians living in Cleveland.
By 1970, the number had grown to 46,000 people in Greater Cleveland who were foreign-born or had Slovenian roots, and in the 1990s the community numbered well over 50,000.