Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Unlikely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 2000 | 106,000 | 114,000 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Other
Comments
After a decade (1990s) in which the minority
population of Hartford’s suburbs doubled, the region
remains one of the most segregated in the nation for
Latinos, according to the Census Bureau’s most
extensive study ever of residential segregation.
Blacks in metropolitan Hartford are slightly more
segregated by neighborhood than Latinos, the census
study found. But because blacks tend to be more
segregated in U.S. cities and suburbs, metro Hartford’s
segregation ranking for blacks was significantly better
– 24th of 43 – in 2000.
Between 1980 and 2000, the Hartford metropolitan
area – a 58 town, 1.2 million person region – was the
fourth most segregated among 36 metros for Latinos
in 2000, trailing only Providence, New York and
Newark, according to the census study.
“I just don’t think this is one of the places that Latinos
did very well,” said John Logan, a sociologist at the
State University of New York at Albany who studies
segregation. “My reading of Hartford is that as the
Hispanic population grew substantially in the last 20
years, it remained very highly segregated, unusually
segregated.”
While a few suburbs near Hartford have many more
black and Latino residents than a decade ago, Parker
said many of Hartford’s outlying suburbs are not
becoming significantly more diverse.
The 2000 Census counted about 114,000 Hispanics
and 106,000 blacks in the Hartford metro area.
Many Latinos are highly concentrated in relatively few
neighborhoods, almost all of them in either Hartford
or New Britain; while blacks are most highly
concentrated in Hartford, Bloomfield, and Windsor.