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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002
ALTHOUGH the farmlands of New Jersey have attracted immigrants
during three centuries, the greatest influx of foreign-born has been
to the industrial centers developed within the last hundred years. Close by
New York City and the Ellis Island immigrant station, New Jersey absorbed wave after wave of Europeans until today it ranks fifth among the
States in its percentage of foreign-born residents.
According to the United States census for 1930, the State had 844,442
foreign-born whites, plus 1,413,239 native whites of foreign or "mixed"
parentage, constituting together about 57 percent of the total population.
Negroes numbered 208,828, about 5 percent of the total. Native whites
of native parentage were about 38 percent of the State's population, com-
pared with an average of about 57 percent for the Nation.
Leading nationalities represented in the foreign-born white population, as recorded by the 1930 census, are shown below:
| Nationalities | Number | Percent of Total Population |
| Italian | 190,858 | 4.7 |
| German | 112,753 | 2.8 |
| Polish | 102,573 | 2.5 |
| Irish | 63,236 | 1.5 |
| Russian | 62,152 | 1.5 |
| English | 51,629 | 1.3 |
| Scotch | 34,721 | .9 |
| Czecho-Slovakian | 32,358 | .8 |
| Hungarian | 32,332 | .8 |
| Scandinavian | 27,895 | .7 |
| Swedish | 13,360 | .4 |
| Norwegian | 7,870 | .2 |
| Danish | 6,665 | .1 |
| Austrian | 24,010 | .6 |
| Dutch | 14,762 | .4 |
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