Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Columbus
- 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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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1930 | 3059 | 48 | ||||||
| 1940 | 5370 | 103 | ||||||
| 1950 | 9024 | 39 | ||||||
| 1960 | 28486 | 28 | ||||||
| 1970 | 38630 | 38 | ||||||
| 1980 | 35199 | 91 | ||||||
| 1990 | 33201 | 86 | ||||||
| 2000 | 33686 | 200 | 35 | 1185 | ||||
| 2010 | 33771 | 269 | 36 | 1665 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Realtors
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Jewish
Comments
A former resident claims that the town may have used restrictive covenants to prevent minorities from moving to the area. Another email correspondent attests that “Upper Arlington for a fact used restrictive covenants barring minority people.” Yet another email correspondent states that “before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 they used to not allow Jews to buy homes there.”
Restrictive covenants was upheld in Upper Arlington even after it was banned by the US government, as this story of a house that made history (in 1970) indicates: http://www.unshovelingthepast.com/2011/10/case-of-race.html.
* Of the 28 African Americans reported in 1960 27 were women.
7/2007
One resident found that there was a restrictive covenant on her original deed for her house built in 1947.
She also said, however, “We’ve been slowly, but steadily increasing the racial mix for several decades now. The population in the high school
has increased from one black family when I went (class of 1989) to 5-10
families now. It is only a five to ten fold increase & we have a long way to go, but there is some progress. One of the elementary schools is almost 30% Asian.”