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?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 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 | ||||||||
| 1920 | 904 | |||||||
| 1930 | 1610 | 1 | ||||||
| 1940 | 2274 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | 4342 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 1960 | 9403 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 12,261 | 5 | ||||||
| 1980 | 13222 | 22 | ||||||
| 1990 | 15,066 | 32 | ||||||
| 2000 | 17,994 | 82 | ||||||
| 2010 | 22581 | 248 | 27 | 283 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
testimony of a former resident: “I grew up in Avon Lake (born in 1975). During the time I was there, I can only recall 1 or 2 black families living there at any time (there may have been 1 or 2 black students in the school systems at any time), and they didn’t seem to stay for long. There was one black student in my elementary school in third grade, but his family moved out sometime during that same
year (don’t know why). A black family that moved in three streets from us in the mid 1980’s reportedly had a cross burned on
their lawn. They moved out shortly thereafter, but that was probably in part because the father had lost his job at the post-office around that time (my dad also worked in the post-office). There
weren’t any other race-related incidents that I can recall, but there weren’t really any targets available anyway.”
Although Avon Lake has enabled minority populations to settle in the city, a more recent testimony affirms a certain level of discomfort:
“Still even in 2004,when I had reason to go to Avon Lake on business with my father, I noticed the looks and,reactions we got from the business owners.”