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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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1,548,833 |
55.04% |
Black* |
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58.2 |
154,487 |
5.49% |
American Indian* |
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42.5 |
15,253 |
0.54% |
Asian* |
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52.5 |
245,297 |
8.72% |
Native Hawaiian* |
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50.9 |
12,164 |
0.43% |
Other* |
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42.6 |
5,822 |
0.21% |
Two or More Races* |
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29.1 |
81,012 |
2.88% |
White/Black* |
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43.2 |
8,970 |
0.32% |
White/American Indian* |
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30.0 |
9,898 |
0.35% |
White/Asian* |
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30.7 |
24,343 |
0.87% |
White/Other* |
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37.5 |
13,200 |
0.47% |
Other Combinations* |
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-- |
24,601 |
0.87% |
Hispanic |
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52.9 |
750,965 |
26.69% |
Total Population |
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2,813,833 |
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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