Immigration Trends

Cuyahoga County (OH)

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

552,300 foreign-born residents on file this year

Poland

73,509

Czechoslovakia

66,997

Germany

63,540

Italy

62,554

Hungary

47,477

1950

186,754 foreign-born residents on file this year

Poland

22,862

Czechoslovakia

21,715

Hungary

20,223

Italy

19,973

Germany

15,014

1940

223,479 foreign-born residents on file this year

Poland

27,960

Czechoslovakia

26,040

Italy

24,033

Hungary

23,833

Germany

21,042

1930

276,966 foreign-born residents on file this year

Czechoslovakia

41,557

Poland

36,012

Germany

29,165

Italy

26,218

Hungary

21,450

1920

265,944 foreign-born residents on file this year

Poland

37,135

Hungary

31,649

Germany

30,590

Czechoslovakia

27,123

Russia

22,182

1910

225,471 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

46,285

Austria

44,934

Hungary

34,496

Russia

25,993

England

13,568

1900

144,154 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

45,787

Bohemia

14,299

Ireland

14,035

England

12,869

Hungary

9,893