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?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1940 | 9,094 | 1 | ||||||
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| 1970 | 25,120 | 47 | ||||||
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| 2010 | 29,257 | 1,008 | ||||||
| 2020 | 22822 | 1860 | 1248 | 397 | 5054 | 4117 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Hispanic
- Other
Comments
Email from 2/2014
“Known by most blacks esp young black males and now Latinos not to travel through after dark.”
Email from a nearby resident:
“East Haven has been in the news off and on since I moved here in 2001 for its aggressively unwelcome attitude toward people of color. Recently, I saw a news story that described a justice department investigation of the East Haven police department for its systematic harassment of Latinos that has resulted in a huge drop in East Haven’s Latino population over the past few years. East Haven’s possible sundown status is complicated by the fact that it’s an Italian-American enclave and the history of Italian-Americans as an unwanted minority group in Connecticut.”