Countries Whence Arrived | 1821 to 1830 |
1831 to 1840 |
1841 to 1850 |
1851 to Dec. 31, 1860 |
Jan. 1 1861 to June 30, 1870 |
Fiscal Years 1871 to 1880 |
Fiscal Years 1881 to 1890 |
Fiscal Years 1891 and 1892 |
Total |
Austria-Hungary | ... | ... | ... | ... | 7,800 | 72,969 | 355,719 | 151,178 | 585,666 |
Belgium | 27 | 22 | 5,074 | 4,738 | 6,734 | 7,221 | 20,177 | 7,340 | 51,333 |
Denmark | 169 | 1,063 | 539 | 3,749 | 17,094 | 31,771 | 88,132 | 21,252 | 163,769 |
France | 3,497 | 45,575 | 77,262 | 76,358 | 35,894 | 72,206 | 50,464 | 13,291 | 379,637 |
Germany | 6,761 | 152,454 | 434,626 | 951,667 | 787,468 | 718,182 | 1,452,970 | 244,312 | 4,748,440 |
Italy | 408 | 2,253 | 1,870 | 9,231 | 11,728 | 55,759 | 307,309 | 138,191 | 526,749 |
Netherlands | 1,078 | 1,412 | 8,251 | 10,789 | 9,102 | 16,541 | 53,701 | 12,466 | 113,340 |
Norway and Sweden | 91 | 1,201 | 13,903 | 20,931 | 109,298 | 211,245 | 568,362 | 107,157 | 1,032,188 |
Russia and Poland | 91 | 646 | 656 | 1,621 | 4,536 | 52,254 | 265,088 | 192,615 | 517,507 |
Spain and Portugal | 2,622 | 2,954 | 2,759 | 10,353 | 8,493 | 9,893 | 6,535 | 5,657 | 49,266 |
Switzerland | 3,226 | 4,821 | 4,644 | 25,011 | 23,286 | 28,293 | 81,988 | 14,219 | 185,488 |
United Kingdom | |||||||||
England[a] | 22,167 | 73,143 | 263,332 | 385,643 | 568,128 | 460,479 | 657,488 | 104,575 | 2,534,955 |
Scotland | 2,912 | 2,667 | 3,712 | 38,331 | 38,768 | 87,564 | 149,869 | 24,077 | 347,900 |
Ireland | 50,724 | 207,381 | 780,719 | 914,119 | 435,778 | 436,871 | 655,482 | 111,173 | 3,592,247 |
Total United Kingdom | 75,803 | 283,191 | 1,047,763 | 1,338,093 | 1,042,674 | 984,914 | 1,462,839 | 239,825 | 6,475,102 |
All other countries of Europe | 43 | 96 | 155 | 116 | 210 | 656 | 10,318 | 4,954 | 16,548 |
Total Europe | 98,816 | 495,688 | 1,597,502 | 2,452,657 | 2,064,407 | 2,261,904 | 4,721,602 | [b]1,152,457 | 14,845,033 |
British North American Possessions | 2,277 | 13,624 | 41,723 | 59,309 | 153,871 | 383,269 | 392,802 | [c] | 1,046,875 |
Mexico | 4,817 | 6,599 | 3,271 | 3,078 | 2,191 | 5,362 | 1,913 | [c] | 27,231 |
Central America | 105 | 44 | 368 | 449 | 96 | 210 | 462 | 576 | 2,310 |
South America | 531 | 856 | 3,579 | 1,224 | 1,396 | 928 | 2,304 | 1,344 | 12,162 |
West Indies | 3,834 | 12,301 | 13,528 | 10,660 | 9,043 | 13,957 | 29,042 | 5,673 | 98,038 |
Total America | 11,564 | 33,424 | 62,469 | 74,720 | 166,597 | 403,726 | 426,523 | 7,593 | 1,186,616 |
Alien Passengers from October 1, 1820, to December 31, 1867, and Immigrants from January 1, 1868 to June 30, 1892. | |||||||||
a↑ Includes Wales and Great Britain not specified. According to William J. Bromwell′s History of Emigration to the United States, published in 1856 by Redfield of New York, 1,000,000 of this number were from Ireland, which is probably accurate. During and after the Irish famine large numbers of Irish who could not find money for the passage to the United States did find it possible to go to England to work in coal mines, factories, and in seasonal agricultural employment; the money secured from which enabled them to embark for the United States from various English ports, which explains Bromwell′s estimate.
b↑ Includes 777 from Azores and 5 from Greenland.
c↑ Immigrants from British North American Possessions and Mexico are not included since July 1, 1885.