California
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?
- Probable
- 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
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | 4282 | 13 | ||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 10132 | 160 | ||||||
| 1960 | 11117 | 115 | ||||||
| 1970 | 10917 | 67 | ||||||
| 1980 | 10498 | 143 | 792 | |||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 10952 | 8607 | 136 | 12 | 2197 | |||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Piedmont is a wealthy town entirely surrounded
by Oakland. Its black population has historically been
mostly female, indicating that these are live-in
domestic workers. Realtor steering still takes place, pointing whites to Piedmont, not Oakland.