Sundown Towns by State 2025

Estimated # of Sundown Towns

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100
150
200
250
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350
  • 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.