Emslanders settled in all of the above-mentioned mid-western states but mostly in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio.

Kansas and Nebraska attracted Emslanders throughout the state with only a few areas of limited concentration. Wisconsin, on the other hand, had a large concentration of Emslanders in the southwest corner of the state but few have been identified elsewhere. Emsland emigratnts in Kentucky were located primarily in two locations along the Ohio River - in Louisville and in Covington, just across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio.