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?
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | 7646 | 7644 | 2 | |||||
| 1870 | 7703 | 7692 | 11 | |||||
| 1880 | 7467 | 7450 | 17 | |||||
| 1890 | 8202 | |||||||
| 1900 | 7582 | 7554 | 23 | 5 | ||||
| 1910 | 7338 | 7320 | 14 | 4 | ||||
| 1920 | 7324 | 7314 | 7 | 3 | ||||
| 1930 | 8668 | 8659 | 7 | 2 | ||||
| 1940 | 10856 | 10840 | 11 | 5 | ||||
| 1950 | 13765 | |||||||
| 1960 | 18521 | 18489 | 10 | 16 | 6 | |||
| 1970 | 21295 | 21231 | 28 | 17 | 19 | |||
| 1980 | 20126 | |||||||
| 1990 | 19971 | 19660 | 81 | 173 | 13 | 44 | ||
| 2000 | 20377 | |||||||
| 2010 | 19808 | |||||||
| 2020 | 20441 | 19657 | 360 | 460 | 148 | 770 | 881 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email from 2011:
“Swampscott did seem very white, not at first because there are plenty of people working here in shops. Then we read your book in our homeschool and looked at the 2010 census reports for Swampscott. What I find amazing is that neighboring Marblehead isn’t on the list. Their population is higher and they have even fewer black residents. I have a friend who tried to live there, she and her black husband, who is a college professor in Boston. They bought a home and after a couple of years she begged him to consider moving because it had become so obvious to her that no one was going to be friends with her or their children because of his and their kids’ color. Their family was even harassed at the Marblehead beach by some white teenage boys. They ended up moving to neighboring Salem, which is more ethnically varied.”