Massachusetts
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | 2024 | 2022 | 2 | |||||
| 1870 | 2247 | |||||||
| 1880 | 2625 | |||||||
| 1890 | 3673 | |||||||
| 1900 | 5084 | 5054 | 27 | 3 | ||||
| 1910 | 8047 | 7990 | 55 | 2 | ||||
| 1920 | 10874 | 10831 | 40 | 3 | ||||
| 1930 | 14700 | 14559 | 131 | |||||
| 1940 | 14825 | 14719 | 106 | |||||
| 1950 | 17162 | |||||||
| 1960 | 20666 | 20571 | 73 | 18 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 1970 | 25110 | 24949 | 97 | 42 | 7 | 15 | ||
| 1980 | 24746 | |||||||
| 1990 | 25549 | 25132 | 140 | 194 | 14 | 69 | ||
| 2000 | 26078 | |||||||
| 2010 | 26628 | |||||||
| 2020 | 28619 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“There is a black family whom I know well, who moved
into a home in Saugus in the early ’60’s, in an area
which was WHITE WHITE WHITE. I remember that soon
after they moved in, their neighbors erected a fence
(completely closed) high enough so that they were
blocked out of sight.”
-posted to the web, 2003