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Updated: August 12th, 2024
Written by: Daniel Atz with Lauren Lowell
This study combines data from Data.Public.Lu, Luxembourg’s National Archives, our 2023 public survey of 1,174 Luxembourg Dual Citizens, and our own internal client data to help explain the who, how and why so many Luxembourg Dual Citizens live in Minnesota.
Please note that this video was recorded for the 2021 version of the study and some figures mentioned within are now out of date.
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As of August 2024, LuxCitizenship has helped 2,079 Americans on the journey to Luxembourg Dual Citizenship.
One thing that we’ve noticed over and over during the last seven years was that a huge number of these American-Luxembourgers either were born in or currently live in the US state Minnesota.
In fact, 22% of LuxCitizenship’s clients were either born in or currently live in Minnesota.
As of June 30th, 2024, Luxembourg’s National Registry of Physical Persons (RNPP) reported that 16,111 Luxembourg citizens were living in the United States.
Combining various government data sources, our best estimate is that 14,347 of these individuals are dual citizens through ancestry. Our 2,079 American clients account for about 12.5% of this population, which we believe gives us a solid basis for drawing insights into overall trends.
17.1% of all our American clients currently live in Minnesota and an impressive 14.2% of all our clients live in the Twin Cities Metro Region alone.
Based on these figures, we estimate that approximately 2,453 Luxembourg dual citizens live in Minnesota and 2,040 of them live in the Minneapolis/St Paul area. This would make the Twin Cities the metro area in the US with the most Luxembourg Dual Citizens.
This report aims to draw meaningful comparisons between our sample group and the larger population.
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Minnesota is located to the North of the US Midwest. Most of the state’s land was acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase. Minnesota became the 32nd American state in 1858. Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes. But in reality, the number is 11,842.
Total Area: 225,163 km2
(Equiv. to Romania)
Population: 5.73 Million
(Equiv. to Denmark)
Largest City: Minneapolis
Capital City: St. Paul
Minnesota is one of the US states with the highest income and education levels. It is also on the border with Canada, making it an important gateway for trade.
Gross Domestic Product: $383,620 Billion (2023)
(Equiv. to Morocco)
Gross Domestic Product: $66,071 (2022)
(16th in the US)
Industries:
– Services & Technology 💻
– Manufacturing 🏭
– Farming & Forestry 🌳
Minneapolis (Hennepin County) is Minnesota’s biggest city. Just across the river sits its capital city, Saint Paul (Ramsey County). The Twin Cities are an economic powerhouse in their own right, accounting for 72.8% of Minnesota’s GDP.
Twin Cities Metro Area Population 🏘️: 3.69 Million
Minneapolis City: 420,324
Saint Paul City: 304,547
Industries:
– High Tech 💻
– Medical Products 💉
– Food Processing 🍽️
– Retail 🛍️
– Financial Services 🏦
Tens of thousands of Luxembourgers emigrated to the New World in the second half of the 19th century.
Our 2,079 American clients are descended from 439 Luxembourgish ancestors. 21% of these Luxembourgers made Minnesota their home in the US.
This study is based on 356 of their descendants living in Minnesota today. These 356 people descend from 86 Luxembourgish ancestors.
Those 86 Luxembourgish ancestors were born across 52 communes in Luxembourg, comprising 11 of Luxembourg’s 12 cantons. The biggest concentration came from Capellen (15.5%) and the least from Esch-sur-Alzette (1.2%). None were born in Canton Wiltz.
As an initial large wave of Luxembourgers arrived in the US in the 1850s, huge amounts of land became available for farming in the Minnesota Territory.
In the 1850s, one Luxembourgish family made their way to Winona County, Minnesota. At that point, word started to spread like wildfire that cheap farmland was available in Minnesota. Huge waves followed.
The Homestead Act of 1862 alone brought 75,000 people to Minnesota in its first three years to receive free parcels of farmland, including a considerable number of Luxembourgers.
The 1880s were considered the heyday of Luxembourgish immigration to the US. Social life flourished, creating a strong sense of identity.
With special land deals in Minnesota, the Luxembourgish immigrants, specifically farmers, were able to afford to own their land.
Eventually, their farms turned reasonable profits and grew from there. Towns started to pop up.
We studied where the dual citizens’ Luxembourgish ancestors resided in Minnesota at the end of their lives. We found the largest concentrations in Stearns, Dakota, and Ramsey counties. Notably, Dakota and Ramsey are two of the eleven counties that make up the Twin Cities Metro area, but, at the time, they were largely farmland.
Despite being “frontier land,” most of the Luxembourgish immigrants to Minnesota lived into old age too, with 65% of them making it past 70 years old.
Out of our 2,079 total American Luxembourg Dual Citizen clients, 17.1% (356 persons) live in Minnesota today and are the basis of this study.
Of this population, 77.2% were born in Minnesota, while 22.8% are from another state.
While there are clear migration patterns from rural zones of Minnesota to major metropolitan areas, such as the Twin Cities, 9.3% of participants reside in the same Minnesota county as their original Luxembourg ancestor.
Most of the applicants born in Minnesota are 4-5 generations removed from their ancestor. As a general pattern, we see that most of the ancestors passed away in the early 20th century.
Based on our Minnesota clients, we estimate that about 1,825 (74.4%) of Luxembourg Dual Citizens in the state are adults, while about 628 (25.6%) are minors. Of the adult applicants, today’s biggest age group is those in their 20s-30s, which makes up 44% of all our Minnesota-based clients.
Of the estimated 1,825 adult dual citizens living in Minnesota as of June 30th, 2024, 50.6% are married, accounting for 923 spouses who could one day become dual citizens. In addition, some dual citizens have adult children who have yet to apply for Luxembourgish citizenship.
Their Luxembourgish ancestors came to farm. Their grandparents and parents largely found their work in or around the Twin Cities.
Well, their children decided it was a good idea to stay, too. And many of them appear to like the big city now. Today, 83.1% of the Minnesotan dual citizens live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (an estimated 2,040 people).
Other metro areas, including Rochester, Duluth, and Saint Cloud, host smaller populations totaling together roughly 5.4% or an estimated 131 individuals. Meanwhile, 11.5%, around 283 individuals, reside in rural areas.
As of June 30th, 2024, we estimate that 2,040 dual citizens live in the Twin Cities Metro Area alone.
In fact, this means that more Luxembourg citizens live in the Twin Cities Metro Area than in Lintgen, the 49th largest commune in Luxembourg (2,014 Luxembourg citizens for a population of 3,480).
Minnesota is the state with the highest portion of people holding at least a high school diploma. It has 2 public university systems, spanning 37 institutions, and 20 private institutions.
Our dual citizen population works in a wide variety of fields. Both in fields that are in demand in Luxembourg, as well as positions that can be useful liaisons for Luxembourg in the USA.
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