CensusScope -- Segregation: Dissimilarity Indices

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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
	Dissimilarity Index		Percent of
	With Whites*	Population**	Total Population
White*	--	593,498	73.89%
Black*	64.1	70,203	8.74%
American Indian*	28.2	54,624	6.80%
Asian*	50.0	9,822	1.22%
Native Hawaiian*	78.7	270	0.03%
Other*	65.1	657	0.08%
Two or More Races*	22.0	35,591	4.43%
White/Black*	49.9	2,289	0.28%
White/American Indian*	24.3	26,197	3.26%
White/Asian*	46.9	1,558	0.19%
White/Other*	54.0	1,367	0.17%
Other Combinations*	--	4,180	0.52%
Hispanic	43.5	38,570	4.80%
Total Population	--	803,235	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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