Immigration Trends

Hudson County (NJ)

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

275,241 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

83,228

Poland

36,437

Germany

29,341

Ireland (Eire)

28,379

United Kingdom

22,720

1950

108,515 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

31,429

Poland

13,688

Germany

12,801

Ireland (Eire)

9,072

The U.S.S.R.

6,494

1940

138,153 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

37,591

Germany

19,387

Poland

16,890

Irish Free State (Eire)

10,965

Russia (U.S.S.R.)

8,386

1930

184,068 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

43,716

Germany

30,048

Poland

23,134

Irish Free State

15,521

Russia

10,323

1920

182,117 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

38,797

Germany

29,863

Ireland

22,206

Poland

22,197

Russia

16,350

1910

177,025 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

42,363

Italy

29,219

Ireland

27,630

Russia

25,886

Austria

11,264

1900

126,519 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

42,048

Ireland

31,225

Italy

9,646

England

9,642

Russia

4,592