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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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789,780 |
72.90% |
Black* |
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60.5 |
113,105 |
10.44% |
American Indian* |
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28.0 |
43,202 |
3.99% |
Asian* |
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45.8 |
26,938 |
2.49% |
Native Hawaiian* |
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72.6 |
633 |
0.06% |
Other* |
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62.0 |
896 |
0.08% |
Two or More Races* |
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21.7 |
35,794 |
3.30% |
White/Black* |
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44.8 |
3,892 |
0.36% |
White/American Indian* |
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22.2 |
20,886 |
1.93% |
White/Asian* |
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41.1 |
3,067 |
0.28% |
White/Other* |
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52.1 |
1,746 |
0.16% |
Other Combinations* |
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-- |
6,203 |
0.57% |
Hispanic |
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47.0 |
72,998 |
6.74% |
Total Population |
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1,083,346 |
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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