Immigration Trends

Monroe 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

193,795 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

57,136

Germany

30,004

Canada

24,776

United Kingdom

19,212

Poland

12,165

1950

62,351 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

19,528

Canada - other

8,373

Germany

7,289

England and Wales

5,069

The U.S.S.R.

4,105

1940

72,182 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

22,752

Canada (other)

9,735

Germany

9,542

England

5,835

Russia (U.S.S.R.)

4,783

1930

87,377 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

25,934

Canada

12,930

Germany

12,683

England

7,519

Poland

6,373

1920

79,502 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

20,752

Germany

12,736

Canada

10,833

England

7,159

Russia

7,015

1910

82,852 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

18,006

Italy

12,169

Canada

11,646

Canada (other)

10,922

Russia

7,287

1900

51,908 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

19,663

Canada (English)

9,324

Ireland

7,233

England

5,514

Russia

1,781