Indiana
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?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | 3830 | 9 | ||||||
| 1930 | 5095 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| 1940 | 6270 | 4 | 0 | |||||
| 1950 | 11873 | 5 | ||||||
| 1960 | 12680 | 21 | ||||||
| 1970 | 19157 | 155 | 537 | |||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 25907 | 559 | ||||||
| 2000 | ||||||||
| 2010 | 29596 | 813 | 5128 | 40 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Realtors
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
* In 1930, 2 of the 6 black residents were dometic live-in servants. The other four lived in an institution.
* All four black residents were domestic live-in servants.
According to a Lafayette resident, it was not until the late 1960s that the first black family moved into West Lafayette.
In the documentary Black Purdue, black Purdue alumni mention that there was no housing for them in West Lafayette.