Immigration Trends

Hennepin County (MN)

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

222,359 foreign-born residents on file this year

Sweden

51,654

Norway

38,603

Germany

30,137

Canada

19,687

Poland

11,218

1950

58,077 foreign-born residents on file this year

Sweden

15,473

Norway

9,628

Canada - other

4,738

Germany

4,014

The U.S.S.R.

3,849

1940

71,447 foreign-born residents on file this year

Sweden

21,244

Norway

12,741

Germany

5,220

Canada (other)

5,164

Russia (U.S.S.R.)

4,574

1930

87,596 foreign-born residents on file this year

Sweden

26,869

Norway

16,401

Canada

7,343

Germany

6,958

Russia

4,922

1920

94,132 foreign-born residents on file this year

Sweden

28,259

Norway

16,956

Canada

7,930

Germany

7,565

Russia

6,295

1910

100,956 foreign-born residents on file this year

Sweden

28,127

Norway

16,971

Germany

10,377

Canada

8,131

Austria

6,842

1900

68,677 foreign-born residents on file this year

Sweden

21,246

Norway

11,985

Germany

9,287

Canada (English)

5,991

Ireland

3,586