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Immigration Trends
Pierce County (WA)
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
78,798 foreign-born residents on file this year
Canada
13,285
Germany
10,702
Norway
9,793
United Kingdom
7,914
Sweden
6,882
1950
25,587 foreign-born residents on file this year
Canada - other
4,089
Norway
3,371
Sweden
2,650
Other
2,495
England and Wales
1,940
1940
27,845 foreign-born residents on file this year
Norway
4,010
Canada (other)
3,760
Sweden
3,532
Other
2,839
Germany
1,971
1930
30,066 foreign-born residents on file this year
Norway
4,905
Canada
4,471
Sweden
4,416
Germany
2,579
England
2,478
1920
31,040 foreign-born residents on file this year
Norway
5,036
Sweden
4,480
Canada
4,138
Germany
2,714
England
2,419
1910
35,072 foreign-born residents on file this year
Norway
5,226
Sweden
4,440
Germany
3,869
Canada
3,835
Canada (other)
3,481
1900
17,774 foreign-born residents on file this year
Germany
2,322
Sweden
2,135
Canada (English)
2,046
Norway
1,932
England
1,779