Sundown Towns by State 2025
Estimated # of Sundown Towns
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State | Estimated # of Sundown Towns↓ | |
|---|---|---|
 | Illinois | 349 |
 | Wisconsin | 246 |
 | Indiana | 245 |
 | Ohio | 144 |
 | Kansas | 133 |
 | Nebraska | 117 |
 | California | 114 |
 | Texas | 107 |
 | Missouri | 101 |
 | Arkansas | 93 |
 | Michigan | 82 |
 | Kentucky | 61 |
 | Oklahoma | 58 |
 | Pennsylvania | 49 |
 | New York | 48 |
 | Iowa | 46 |
 | Connecticut | 39 |
 | New Jersey | 31 |
 | Tennessee | 27 |
 | Oregon | 26 |
 | Minnesota | 23 |
 | Florida | 22 |
 | Maryland | 20 |
 | Georgia | 19 |
 | West Virginia | 18 |
 | Massachusetts | 17 |
 | Alabama | 16 |
 | North Carolina | 16 |
 | Washington | 14 |
 | New Hampshire | 12 |
 | Virginia | 12 |
 | Colorado | 11 |
 | Mississippi | 10 |
 | Utah | 10 |
 | Maine | 9 |
 | North Dakota | 9 |
 | South Carolina | 9 |
 | Arizona | 8 |
 | Idaho | 8 |
 | Louisiana | 8 |
 | Montana | 7 |
 | Nevada | 7 |
 | Vermont | 7 |
 | South Dakota | 6 |
 | New Mexico | 4 |
 | Wyoming | 4 |
 | Rhode Island | 2 |
 | Delaware | 1 |
 | United States | 2,425 |
- Listings are focused upon towns, but may include a small number of entire counties as well.
- Data for Alaska and Hawaii were unavailable.
- For the purposes of the data below, a “sundown town” is defined as a town that was at some point in its history deliberately “whites only”, though some sundown towns allowed a single black family to remain.
- Some sundown towns kept out not only blacks, but also Chinese Americans, Jews, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and/or Mormons.
- Research on this topic is ongoing. As such, data should in no way be considered a comprehensive list of all sundown towns.
