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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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840,677 |
81.97% |
Black* |
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68.6 |
141,745 |
13.82% |
American Indian* |
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45.5 |
2,168 |
0.21% |
Asian* |
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50.6 |
10,925 |
1.07% |
Native Hawaiian* |
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81.0 |
292 |
0.03% |
Other* |
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61.3 |
1,383 |
0.13% |
Two or More Races* |
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35.3 |
11,929 |
1.16% |
White/Black* |
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49.5 |
3,640 |
0.35% |
White/American Indian* |
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38.1 |
2,923 |
0.29% |
White/Asian* |
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49.9 |
1,534 |
0.15% |
White/Other* |
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64.8 |
1,365 |
0.13% |
Other Combinations* |
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2,467 |
0.24% |
Hispanic |
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42.0 |
16,479 |
1.61% |
Total Population |
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1,025,598 |
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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