444,000 Danish Americans in 1940
Postcard of Oscar II - one of the ships of the Scandinavian-American Line which brought Danish immigrants to the USA. Postmarked 1914. Author's collection.
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In 1940, the U.S. census shows that there were 138,174 Danish-born people living in the United States as well as 305,640 second generation Danish-Americans - people whose mother, father or both were born in Denmark. In comparison, the county of Denmark had four million inhabitants in 1945.
Geographically, the largest numbers of Danish-born Americans lived in California, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and New York. The largest number of second-generation Danish-Americans were located in the same states plus in sizeable numbers in Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. The cities with the largest numbers of Danish-Americans include New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Most of the Danish-Americans who were born in Denmark had become American citizens before the outbreak of WWII. |
Sources:
Torben Grøngaard Jeppesen, Danske i USA 1850-2000: En demografisk, social og kultur-geografisk undersøgelse af de danske immigranter og deres efterkommere [Danes in the USA 1850-2000: A demographic, social and culture-geographical study of the Danish immigrants and their descendants] (Odense, DK: Odense Bys Museer, 2005): 324-331.
Axel Sporon-Fiedler, Den danske bevægelse i de forenede stater i besættelsesårene: en kort redegørelse af Axel Sporon-Fiedler [The Danish movement in the United States during the years of the occupation: A brief account of Axel Sponron-Fiedler] ([Publisher unknown], 1947).
Torben Grøngaard Jeppesen, Danske i USA 1850-2000: En demografisk, social og kultur-geografisk undersøgelse af de danske immigranter og deres efterkommere [Danes in the USA 1850-2000: A demographic, social and culture-geographical study of the Danish immigrants and their descendants] (Odense, DK: Odense Bys Museer, 2005): 324-331.
Axel Sporon-Fiedler, Den danske bevægelse i de forenede stater i besættelsesårene: en kort redegørelse af Axel Sporon-Fiedler [The Danish movement in the United States during the years of the occupation: A brief account of Axel Sponron-Fiedler] ([Publisher unknown], 1947).