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* | -- | 374,913 | 40.64% | |
| Black* | 58.6 | 45,001 | 4.88% | |
| American Indian* | 38.2 | 7,917 | 0.86% | |
| Asian* | 45.5 | 64,509 | 6.99% | |
| Native Hawaiian* | 58.0 | 842 | 0.09% | |
| Other* | 47.3 | 1,738 | 0.19% | |
| Two or More Races* | 28.0 | 21,445 | 2.32% | |
| White/Black* | 51.5 | 1,832 | 0.20% | |
| White/American Indian* | 30.5 | 4,560 | 0.49% | |
| White/Asian* | 32.7 | 3,135 | 0.34% | |
| White/Other* | 33.8 | 5,226 | 0.57% | |
| Other Combinations* | -- | 6,692 | 0.73% | |
| Hispanic | 51.1 | 406,151 | 44.03% | |
| Total Population | -- | 922,516 | 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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