Luxembourgish Americans
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Luxembourger Americans are Americans of Luxembourgish ancestry. According to the United States' 2000 census, there were 45,139 Americans of full or partial Luxembourgish descent.[2] In 1940, the number of Americans with Luxembourgish ancestry was around 100,000.[3]
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Total population | |
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47,129 (2019)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Illinois · Wisconsin · Michigan • Minnesota · Iowa · California · South Dakota · Ohio · Pennsylvania · New York · Florida · Indiana · Kansas · Missouri | |
Languages | |
American English · Luxembourgish · German · French · Yiddish · Hebrew | |
Religion | |
Roman Catholicism · Judaism · Lutheranism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
German Americans · Belgian Americans · French Americans · Swiss Americans |
The first families from Luxembourg arrived in the United States, around 1842, fleeing of the overpopulation and economic change in the newly independent country. They worked in the field, as was traditional in their country.[4]
Luxembourger Americans are overwhelmingly concentrated in the Midwest, where most originally settled in the 19th century. In the 2000 census, the states with the largest self-reported Luxembourger American populations were Illinois (6,963), Wisconsin (6,580), Minnesota (5,867), Iowa (5,624), and California (2,824).[5]