Immigration Trends

Marion County (IN)

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

45,378 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

12,082

United Kingdom

5,319

Ireland (Eire)

3,713

Canada

3,038

Italy

2,414

1950

11,162 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

2,374

England and Wales

961

Ireland (Eire)

883

Canada - other

701

The U.S.S.R.

612

1940

12,162 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

3,117

Irish Free State (Eire)

1,086

England

867

Russia (U.S.S.R.)

791

Italy

658

1930

15,258 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

4,522

Irish Free State

1,442

England

1,140

Russia

925

Other countries

895

1920

18,185 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

5,677

Ireland

2,488

Russia

1,320

England

1,289

Other countries

937

1910

23,092 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

8,304

Ireland

3,383

England

1,291

Russia

1,260

Austria

1,254

1900

36,292 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

9,639

Other Colored >> Female

8,827

Other Colored >> Male

8,741

Ireland

4,009

England

1,253