Braintree

Basic Information

Type of Place

Independent City or Town

Metro Area

Politics c. 1860?

Unions, Organized Labor?

Sundown Town Status

Sundown Town in the Past?

Possible

Was there an ordinance?

Don't Know

Sign?

Don’t Know

Year of Greatest Interest

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present

	Total	White	Black	Asian	Native	Hispanic	Other	BHshld
1860	3468	3468
1870	3948
1880	3855
1890	4848	4840	5
1900	5981	5954	22	5
1910	8066	8052	10				4
1920	10580	10567	9				4
1930	15712	15689	22				1
1940	16378	16372	5				1
1950	23161
1960	31069	31007	29	23	5		5
1970	35050	34911	69	41	6		23
1980	36337
1990	33836	32964	204	527	32		109
2000	33828
2010	35744
2020	39143

Method of Exclusion

• Zoning

Main Ethnic Group(s)

• Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

• Black
• Jewish

Comments

“When I was a kid in the 40s in Boston, I know my
parents had gentile friends (‘aunt’ and ‘uncle’) who
lived in Braintree, Mass. and had restrictive covenants
(the whole town apparently) against Jews.”
-posted to the web, 2002