{{Short description|none}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox ethnic group |group=Czechs in Austria |popplace=[[Vienna]], [[Lower Austria]] |pop=40,324-60,000 (2016)<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/menschen_und_gesellschaft/bevoelkerung/bevoelkerungsstruktur/bevoelkerung_nach_staatsangehoerigkeit_geburtsland/index.html|title=Bevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeit und Geburtsland|first=STATISTIK|last=AUSTRIA|website=Statistik.at|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref> |langs=[[Czech language|Czech]], [[German language|German]] |rels=[[Irreligion]] (majority){{·}}[[Roman Catholic]] (minority) |related=[[Slovaks in Austria]], [[History of the Czechs in Vienna|Czechs in Vienna]] }} '''Czechs''' ({{langx|de|Tschechen}}) are a historically significant and traditional migrant group within [[Austria]]. As of 2016, there were 40,324 self-identified Czechs in Austria. The [[History of the Czechs in Vienna|only significant community of Austrian Czechs today]] is in [[Vienna]], the capital city, where they have had a significant presence since the 19th century.
==History== In the 19th century, the [[Czechoslovakia|Czech and Slovak]] region went through an economic depression, causing many unemployed ethnic Czechs and [[Slovaks in Austria|Slovak]] menial workers to migrate to Vienna and the Americas.{{cn|date=August 2025}}
From the 1880s to the 1890s, around 230,000 [[Czechs]] and [[Slovaks]] emigrated to Austria proper, mainly for construction work and other menial labor jobs in the larger cities, particularly [[Vienna]]. After the fall of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], 150,000 people returned to Czechoslovakia after its independence. Of the more than 300,000 Czechs in the country, the population diminished to around 10,000 by 1991.<ref name="uoc.edu">{{cite web|url=https://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/eslovac/an/i1/i1.html|title=SLOVAK IN AUSTRIA|website=Uoc.edu|accessdate=9 January 2018|archive-date=8 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608054310/http://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/eslovac/an/i1/i1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>
Since the admission of the [[Czech Republic]] to the [[European Union]] in 2004, several dozen thousand Czech citizens have emigrated to Austria, mainly due to the open borders that have been made possible by the [[Schengen Agreement]]. The Czech population has increased by as much as four times as of 2016.<ref name="uoc.edu"/>
==See also== {{Portal|Austria|Czech Republic}} * [[Austria–Czech Republic relations]] * [[Immigration to Austria]] * [[Czech diaspora]] * [[Austrians in the Czech Republic]] ==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Ethnic groups in Austria}} {{Czech diaspora}} {{Portal bar|Austria|Czech Republic}}
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