Immigration Trends

Jefferson County (AL)

Top countries of origin for this county's foreign-born population, decade by decade, 1900-1960 -- the same IPUMS NHGIS census tables behind Population Trends, read for country-of-birth instead of race. No comparable county-level series exists past 1960 in this data (same real gap Population Trends names for its own 1960-2023 span).

1960

19,078 foreign-born residents on file this year

United Kingdom

4,237

Italy

3,947

Germany

2,041

Asia

1,190

U.S.S.R.

1,049

1950

157 foreign-born residents on file this year

Other

157

1940

5,600 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

1,394

England

634

Scotland

476

Russia (U.S.S.R.)

453

Greece

416

1930

7,435 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

1,784

England

978

Scotland

641

Russia

596

Germany

525

1920

8,003 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

2,160

England

1,019

Russia

797

Scotland

644

Germany

573

1910

8,367 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

1,846

England

1,150

Germany

853

Russia

744

Scotland

673

1900

62,125 foreign-born residents on file this year

Other Colored >> Male

30,705

Other Colored >> Female

26,226

England

1,099

Scotland

793

Germany

761