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Immigration Trends
Wayne County (MI)
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
832,808 foreign-born residents on file this year
Canada
170,250
Poland
158,137
Germany
80,958
United Kingdom
78,971
Italy
71,041
1950
353,724 foreign-born residents on file this year
Canada - other
72,697
Poland
59,632
Italy
29,044
England and Wales
22,901
The U.S.S.R.
21,753
1940
394,224 foreign-born residents on file this year
Canada (other)
77,188
Poland
70,895
Italy
30,108
Germany
27,886
England
26,746
1930
477,789 foreign-born residents on file this year
Canada
110,130
Poland
88,478
Germany
37,697
England
35,305
Italy
31,572
1920
344,725 foreign-born residents on file this year
Poland
75,736
Canada
67,145
Germany
34,745
Russia
32,282
England
20,451
1910
217,469 foreign-born residents on file this year
Germany
50,018
Canada
45,820
Canada (other)
40,579
Russia
19,650
Austria
14,765
1900
116,808 foreign-born residents on file this year
Germany
40,284
Canada (English)
28,075
Poland (German)
11,022
England
7,428
Ireland
7,267