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*	--	166,386	60.26%
Black*	56.2	75,931	27.50%
American Indian*	41.2	795	0.29%
Asian*	30.5	9,282	3.36%
Native Hawaiian*	72.5	100	0.04%
Other*	46.2	377	0.14%
Two or More Races*	31.6	3,914	1.42%
White/Black*	46.2	756	0.27%
White/American Indian*	40.6	442	0.16%
White/Asian*	29.4	744	0.27%
White/Other*	47.7	680	0.25%
Other Combinations*	--	1,292	0.47%
Hispanic	53.9	19,308	6.99%
Total	--	276,093	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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