Michigan
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Detroit
- 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?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 2,955 | 11 | ||||||
| 2000 | 2,823 | 17 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Realtors
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Asian
- Jewish
- Other
Comments
Grosse Pointe Shores is one of the five Grosse
Pointes that comprise one of the most exclusive
suburban areas in the country.
Information on the infamous “point system” used by
the five Grosse Pointes can be found in the Grosse
Pointe, MI, entry.
Four of the Grosse Pointes, including Grosse Pointe
Shores, adopted ordinances limiting use of their public
parks to residents only. In 1999, the state of Michigan
declared that the parks must be open to all or the
cities would have to start paying property taxes on the
land. In response, the Grosse Pointes began
undervaluing the park land, in effect paying no taxes.