CensusScope -- Segregation: Dissimilarity Indices

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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
	Dissimilarity Index		Percent of
	With Whites*	Population**	Total Population
White*	--	1,979,218	56.24%
Black*	64.4	524,262	14.90%
American Indian*	35.6	13,933	0.40%
Asian*	51.0	140,610	4.00%
Native Hawaiian*	73.8	1,408	0.04%
Other*	57.1	3,822	0.11%
Two or More Races*	31.3	45,424	1.29%
White/Black*	48.3	6,670	0.19%
White/American Indian*	34.5	10,516	0.30%
White/Asian*	42.8	8,479	0.24%
White/Other*	51.7	7,487	0.21%
Other Combinations*	--	12,272	0.35%
Hispanic	58.5	810,499	23.03%
Total Population	--	3,519,176	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).

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