Immigration Trends

Richmond 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

88,834 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

32,977

Ireland (Eire)

8,638

Germany

8,613

United Kingdom

7,209

Norway

5,300

1950

30,734 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

9,931

Germany

2,978

Ireland (Eire)

2,587

Norway

2,538

England and Wales

1,634

1940

35,290 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

10,799

Germany

4,138

Norway

2,983

Irish Free State (Eire)

2,973

England

1,864

1930

39,520 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

11,036

Germany

4,987

Irish Free State

3,766

Norway

3,502

England

2,317

1920

31,577 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

8,728

Germany

4,375

Ireland

3,744

Poland

2,451

England

1,913

1910

24,894 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

5,368

Italy

4,260

Ireland

4,017

Russia

2,213

England

1,904

1900

19,845 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

5,589

Ireland

4,858

England

1,790

Italy

1,435

Norway

735