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