Kentucky
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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1920s
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 4163 | 29 | ||||||
| 1920 | 4582 | 26 | ||||||
| 1930 | 6485 | 5 | ||||||
| 1940 | 6185 | 1 | ||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 6233 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 5815 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | 4959 | 0 | ||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 4409 | 17 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| 2010 | 4407 | 45 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Ludlow is said to have had a sign. One resident of town, in his 40s said that when he graduated from high school, “There was a law on the books that no Blacks could live there.”
According to another Kentuckian who grew up in the area, Ludlow is also said to have had a 6PM siren.