Immigration Trends

Queens 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

935,567 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

201,698

Germany

133,196

U.S.S.R.

108,743

Poland

82,378

Ireland (Eire)

80,743

1950

290,396 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

59,920

Italy

56,599

Ireland (Eire)

24,741

The U.S.S.R.

21,072

Austria

16,908

1940

277,601 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

64,912

Italy

55,011

Irish Free State (Eire)

23,632

Russia (U.S.S.R.)

17,960

Poland

13,492

1930

266,150 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

64,007

Italy

50,307

Irish Free State

22,659

Russia

16,571

Poland

14,344

1920

111,729 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

32,446

Italy

19,794

Ireland

10,618

Poland

7,778

Russia

7,627

1910

80,349 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

30,252

Italy

11,154

Ireland

8,671

Russia

8,395

Austria

5,511

1900

47,576 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

20,380

Ireland

7,958

England

3,105

Italy

3,003

Poland (other)

1,844