Immigration Trends

Kings County (NY)

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

1,319,575 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

372,518

U.S.S.R.

245,912

Poland

167,070

Austria

75,031

Ireland (Eire)

70,484

1950

635,105 foreign-born residents on file this year

The U.S.S.R.

154,949

Italy

153,727

Poland

79,582

Austria

42,729

Germany

29,038

1940

770,709 foreign-born residents on file this year

Russia (U.S.S.R.)

201,961

Italy

183,702

Poland

87,980

Austria

53,621

Germany

42,111

1930

868,770 foreign-born residents on file this year

Russia

219,483

Italy

193,435

Poland

106,714

Germany

56,134

Austria

47,471

1920

659,833 foreign-born residents on file this year

Russia

189,421

Italy

138,245

Germany

56,778

Ireland

53,660

Poland

51,928

1910

580,151 foreign-born residents on file this year

Russia

160,596

Italy

100,424

Germany

87,912

Ireland

70,653

Austria

35,913

1900

375,370 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

106,654

Ireland

83,400

Italy

37,200

England

27,600

Russia

24,403