Tables

Rank by number of German residents	City	Total Population	German Population
1	New York*	3,437,202	1,100,000
2	Chicago	1,698,575	470,000 to 595,000
3	St. Louis	575,238	259,000
4	Baltimore	508,957	214,000
5	Philadelphia	1,293,697	194,000
6	Milwaukee	285,315	157,000 to 200,000
7	Cincinnati	325,902	130,000 to 176,000
8	Buffalo, New York	352,387	152,000
9	Cleveland	381,768	147,000 to 152,000
10	Detroit	285,704	117,000

* This is the first census after the consolidation of the five boroughs.

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Name	City of Publication	Dates of Operation	Size of Peak Circulation (year)
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung	New York City	1834–1934	138,000 (1916)
Germania (and other names)	Milwaukee	1873–1924	108,000 (1911)
Illinois Staats-Zeitung	Chicago	1848–1922	40,000 (1918)
Waechter aund Anzeiger	Cleveland	1852–1954	34,000 (1915)
Die Westliche Post	St. Louis	1857–1938	34,000 (1905)
Herold	Milwaukee	1861–1955	31,000 (1920)
Abend Anzeiger	St. Louis	1898–1912	31,000 (1905)
Demokrat (and other names)	Philadelphia	1839–1918	28,000 (1870)
Detroiter Abend-Post	Detroit	1868–1955	28,000 (1940)
Taegliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt	Cincinnati	1836–1919	23,000 (1911)
Reform (Brooklyn)	New York City	1871–1919	21,000 (1918)

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