Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | 1539 | 1526 | 4 | |||||
| 1870 | 1846 | |||||||
| 1880 | 2500 | |||||||
| 1890 | 3198 | |||||||
| 1900 | 4548 | 4497 | 44 | 7 | ||||
| 1910 | 6204 | 6183 | 14 | 7 | ||||
| 1920 | 8101 | 8077 | 17 | 7 | ||||
| 1930 | 10346 | 10323 | 20 | 3 | ||||
| 1940 | 10761 | 10743 | 17 | 1 | ||||
| 1950 | 11580 | |||||||
| 1960 | 13294 | 13258 | 22 | 9 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 1970 | 13578 | 13491 | 40 | 27 | 12 | 8 | ||
| 1980 | 13837 | |||||||
| 1990 | 13650 | 13459 | 65 | 79 | 13 | 34 | ||
| 2000 | 14412 | |||||||
| 2010 | 13787 | 233 | ||||||
| 2020 | 14011 | 436 | 467 | 128 | 1002 | 1020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“I grew up in Swampscott, Massachusetts in the
1960’s, graduating HS in 1975. I don’t think I ever even saw a black person in real life until the famous forced busing of METCO students came along… I do remember hearing that there was one (ONE) black family in town, not two blocks from where I grew up, but I never saw them. I think that it’s not quite as segregated now, but I doubt there are ten black families living there today.”
-posted to the web, 2006
METCO was not a part of the Boston “forced busing” situation. It was a voluntary program in the suburbs of Boston where urban youth were voluntarily bussed in to give them different opportunities while exposing the local youth to non white people.
– Posted to the web in response to above
Email:
11/2010
“Swampscott, MA is not still a sundown town. I live here and personally know black families that do as well.”