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SEGREGATION: DISSIMILARITY INDICES
The dissimilarity index measures the relative separation or integration of groups across all neighborhoods of a city or metropolitan area. If a city's white-black dissimilarity index were 65, that would mean that 65% of white people would need to move to another neighborhood to make whites and blacks evenly distributed across all neighborhoods.
Dissimilarity Indices
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Dissimilarity Index |
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Percent of |
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With Whites* |
Population** |
Total Population |
White* |
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5,023,779 |
82.93% |
Black* |
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68.8 |
280,062 |
4.62% |
American Indian* |
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54.6 |
9,974 |
0.16% |
Asian* |
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53.3 |
234,413 |
3.87% |
Native Hawaiian* |
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83.4 |
1,611 |
0.03% |
Other* |
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69.1 |
41,336 |
0.68% |
Two or More Races* |
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44.1 |
102,774 |
1.70% |
White/Black* |
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50.8 |
13,762 |
0.23% |
White/American Indian* |
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46.6 |
11,118 |
0.18% |
White/Asian* |
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44.5 |
15,093 |
0.25% |
White/Other* |
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60.6 |
26,931 |
0.44% |
Other Combinations* |
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-- |
35,870 |
0.59% |
Hispanic |
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64.0 |
363,877 |
6.01% |
Total Population |
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6,057,826 |
100.00% |
* Non-Hispanic only.
* When a group's population is small, its dissimilarity index may be high even if the group's members are evenly distributed throughout the area. Thus, when a group's population is less than 1,000, exercise caution in interpreting its dissimilarity indices.
Source: William H. Frey and Dowell Myers' analysis of Census 2000; and the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN). Home | About | Help | Contact | Use Policy
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