Immigration Trends

Milwaukee County (WI)

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

303,882 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

104,041

Poland

52,585

Austria

16,265

Italy

14,625

U.S.S.R.

14,594

1950

84,434 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

23,794

Poland

13,399

Austria

7,306

The U.S.S.R.

5,820

Yugoslavia

4,829

1940

105,063 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

34,547

Poland

17,335

Austria

8,885

Russia (U.S.S.R.)

7,299

Yugoslavia

5,361

1930

133,537 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

48,273

Poland

22,857

Yugoslavia

8,472

Russia

8,015

Austria

7,354

1920

130,677 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

46,660

Poland

26,451

Russia

7,808

Austria

7,282

Hungary

6,152

1910

131,469 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

74,728

Austria

14,038

Russia

12,932

Hungary

7,065

Italy

3,528

1900

103,569 foreign-born residents on file this year

Germany

63,952

Poland (German)

15,588

Ireland

3,420

England

2,517

Canada (English)

1,981