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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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2,801,267 |
34.98% |
Black* |
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85.3 |
1,962,154 |
24.50% |
American Indian* |
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75.5 |
17,321 |
0.22% |
Asian* |
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54.1 |
780,229 |
9.74% |
Native Hawaiian* |
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83.0 |
2,829 |
0.04% |
Other* |
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70.0 |
58,775 |
0.73% |
Two or More Races* |
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54.4 |
225,149 |
2.81% |
White/Black* |
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63.8 |
12,692 |
0.16% |
White/American Indian* |
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65.7 |
3,886 |
0.05% |
White/Asian* |
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48.1 |
22,947 |
0.29% |
White/Other* |
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52.9 |
63,253 |
0.79% |
Other Combinations* |
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-- |
122,371 |
1.53% |
Hispanic |
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69.5 |
2,160,554 |
26.98% |
Total |
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8,008,278 |
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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