Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Cleveland
- 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
- 1963
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1930 | ||||||||
| 1940 | 1175 | 7 | ||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 10609 | 20 | ||||||
| 1970 | 18925 | 4007 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 1498 | 14,011 | ||||||
| 2000 | 15109 | 999 | 13660 | |||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“Warrensville Heights in 1960 was all white. By 1970, 21% of its population was black.” “The first ‘pioneer’ black family moved into Warrensville Heights in 1963.” “By 1980 the pop. of Warrensville Heights was 75% black.” In 1990, it was 89% black. Lee-Harvard (a neighboring town) was almost all black by 1980.
“Unlike East Cleveland, which experienced a tremendous decline since racial transtition led to the resegregation of most of the city, Warrensville Heights has maintained itself as a desirable suburb, providing good public services and pulic education and maintaining its housing stock.” Raymond Grabow, a white lawyer, retains mayorship.
[W. Dennis Keating, The Suburban Racial Dilemma (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1994), 72-73.]
* In 1960, 18 of the 20 blacks reported were women.
* In 2000, blacks made up 90.4% of the population.