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* | -- | 222,067 | 88.72% | |
| Black* | 46.6 | 6,892 | 2.75% | |
| American Indian* | 52.2 | 1,411 | 0.56% | |
| Asian* | 42.9 | 7,118 | 2.84% | |
| Native Hawaiian* | 76.3 | 134 | 0.05% | |
| Other* | 61.6 | 352 | 0.14% | |
| Two or More Races* | 36.1 | 3,880 | 1.55% | |
| White/Black* | 44.4 | 1,142 | 0.46% | |
| White/American Indian* | 46.7 | 757 | 0.30% | |
| White/Asian* | 45.8 | 756 | 0.30% | |
| White/Other* | 64.3 | 617 | 0.25% | |
| Other Combinations* | -- | 608 | 0.24% | |
| Hispanic | 39.0 | 8,437 | 3.37% | |
| Total Population | -- | 250,291 | 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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