Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1950 | 7847 | 6 | ||||||
| 1960 | 19453 | 3 | ||||||
| 1970 | 32267 | 127 | 193 | |||||
| 1980 | 29474 | 496 | ||||||
| 1990 | 31300 | 28913 | 1290 | 123 | 974 | |||
| 2000 | 32052 | 2010 | 127 | 1064 | ||||
| 2010 | 32352 | 2507 | 108 | 1015 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email 3/2008
A lot of Black students from Central State University(A Historically Black College & University) live in Fairborn.
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One black Ohioan claims that Fairborn had no blacks until 1970s.
“In 1963 the town came under some scrutiny and complaint from the federal government. It seems that airmen stationed at Wright Patterson and some blacks who had been transferred there, issued complaints that Fairborn did not allow blacks to reside in the city limits. The civic fathers of the town held a meeting and asked my father if he would move us to Fairborn since he was well known in the community, having owned a tailor shop there for several years. My father was promised a low cost mortgage and other incentives, but I was still in high school and he did not want me to be the sacrificial lamb so to speak.”
A current resident emailed us: “I am African American and have lived here since 1991, very welcomed by most. There is a large military base here as well which would make if difficult to “police” Blacks being around after dark because they could be working on the base.”
*1960: all the black residents were females, most likely maids without an independent household.