The ePodunk map shows U.S. cities with the highest percentages of people of Swiss ancestry. Learn about cities with Swiss genealogy and find in-depth community information about the Swiss ancestry cities.
Major Swiss immigration to America occured between 1850 and 1914, when thousands of rural residents left their home country to for affordable farmland here.
In the 2000 census, 911,502 people in the U.S. claimed Swiss ancestry.
ePodunk mapped the top communities by percentage of population. The map and the following list show communities in which 1,000 or more people listed an ancestry group, and in which at least 5 percent of those people said they were of Swiss ancestry.
The links at left lead to information on other ethnicities.
Sources: 2000 Census, U.S. Census Bureau; Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, ed. Stephan Thernstrom; Ancestry: 2000, U.S. Census Bureau (June 2004); ePodunk
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The ePodunk map shows U.S. cities with the highest percentages of people of Swiss ancestry. Learn about cities with Swiss genealogy and find in-depth community information about the Swiss ancestry cities.