Immigration Trends

Shelby County (TN)

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

20,725 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

4,224

Germany

2,847

United Kingdom

2,196

U.S.S.R.

1,843

Canada

1,617

1950

183 foreign-born residents on file this year

Other

183

1940

5,052 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

1,403

Russia (U.S.S.R.)

661

Germany

589

Poland

473

England

314

1930

5,789 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

1,590

Russia

763

Germany

726

Poland

460

England

435

1920

6,513 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

1,717

Russia

1,022

Germany

865

England

526

Ireland

486

1910

7,659 foreign-born residents on file this year

Italy

1,565

Germany

1,554

Russia

983

Ireland

851

England

588

1900

90,568 foreign-born residents on file this year

Other Colored >> Female

42,556

Other Colored >> Male

42,247

Germany

1,671

Ireland

1,210

Italy

949