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SEGREGATION: DISSIMILARITY INDICES

New YorK Cities Ranked by White/Multiracial Dissimilarity Index
Minority White Total Dissimilarity
Rank City Population Population Population Index
1. Spring Valley village 1,220 7,866 25,464 59.3
2. New York city 225,149 2,801,267 8,008,278 54.4
3. Yonkers city 5,177 99,346 196,086 49.1
4. Hempstead village 1,250 7,460 56,554 46.4
5. Buffalo city 5,456 151,450 292,648 46.1
6. Mount Vernon city 2,440 16,677 68,381 44.6
7. White Plains city 1,046 28,743 53,077 44.0
8. Rochester city 5,868 97,395 219,773 42.0
9. Niagara Falls city* 998 41,843 55,593 41.4
10. Utica city 1,562 46,389 60,651 40.7
11. Newburgh city* 745 7,969 28,259 39.5
11. Poughkeepsie city* 977 14,706 29,871 39.5
13. Albany city 2,242 58,459 95,658 39.4
14. New Rochelle city 1,359 40,272 72,182 39.2
15. Freeport village* 839 13,835 43,783 38.2
16. Schenectady city 1,813 46,069 61,821 37.6
17. North Tonawanda city* 198 32,294 33,262 36.7
18. Syracuse city 4,493 91,928 147,306 36.4
19. Lindenhurst village* 374 24,976 27,819 36.2
20. Long Beach city* 450 27,328 35,462 36.1
21. Auburn city* 389 24,971 28,574 35.3
22. Binghamton city 1,250 38,717 47,380 35.1
23. Port Chester village* 497 11,934 27,867 34.9
24. Valley Stream village* 607 25,981 36,368 34.8
25. Jamestown city* 540 28,235 31,730 34.1
26. Elmira city* 703 25,002 30,940 33.5
27. Glen Cove city* 369 18,144 26,622 32.2
28. Rome city* 491 29,872 34,950 30.3
29. Troy city* 954 38,711 49,170 30.0
30. Middletown city* 624 14,423 25,388 28.6
31. Saratoga Springs city* 305 24,252 26,186 28.6
32. Watertown city* 537 23,438 26,705 24.1
33. Ithaca city* 810 20,893 29,287 20.7

* 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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