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Immigration Trends
Providence County (RI)
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
250,865 foreign-born residents on file this year
Italy
62,604
Canada
60,977
United Kingdom
33,088
Ireland (Eire)
21,508
Portugal
16,002
1950
91,476 foreign-born residents on file this year
Italy
20,400
French Canada
16,553
England and Wales
11,243
Ireland (Eire)
6,699
Other European Countries
5,119
1940
113,144 foreign-born residents on file this year
Italy
24,334
French Canada
19,851
England
15,400
Irish Free State (Eire)
8,426
Canada (other)
6,215
1930
141,606 foreign-born residents on file this year
Canada
33,824
Italy
27,427
England
20,869
Irish Free State
11,733
Poland
7,576
1920
143,783 foreign-born residents on file this year
Canada
31,028
Italy
26,753
England
22,408
Ireland
18,851
Russia
7,490
1910
186,284 foreign-born residents on file this year
Canada
34,858
Canada (French)
28,249
Ireland
25,128
England
24,361
Italy
22,223
1900
115,824 foreign-born residents on file this year
Ireland
29,740
Canada (French)
24,940
England
19,624
Italy
7,766
Canada (English)
6,619