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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