Michigan
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Upper Peninsula
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 14789 | 187 | ||||||
| 1940 | 15928 | 141 | ||||||
| 1950 | 17202 | 263 | ||||||
| 1960 | 19824 | 674 | ||||||
| 1970 | 21967 | 453 | ||||||
| 1980 | 23288 | 663 | ||||||
| 1990 | 21977 | 621 | ||||||
| 2000 | 19661 | 162 | 343 | 162 | ||||
| 2010 | 21355 | 946 | 316 | 188 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
* In 1930 only five out of the 187 black residents were female. There was not a single child among the black residents.
* The skewed gender imbalance in the black Marquette population continues throughout the decades:
1940 – 136 males, 5 females
1950 – 259 males, 4 females
1960 – 639 males, 35 females
1970 – 382 males, 71 females (only 44 of the 453 black residents lived in a household setting).