California
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Los Angeles/San Diego
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 12516 | 1 | ||||||
| 1940 | 16198 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 71812 | 28265 | ||||||
| 1970 | 78611 | 55781 | ||||||
| 1980 | 81298 | 60812 | ||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 93493 | 15625 | 37690 | 237 | 656 | 53143 | 34911 | |
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
- Violence Towards Newcomers
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Compton broke sometime between 1940 and
1960 and is now very mixed.
“The first blacks who dared venture to Compton
were greeted with white hostility: Paint was smeared
on their homes, flower gardens were uprooted,
crosses were burned on their lawns.”
-1998 newpaper article