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*	--	28,003	80.59%
Black*	46.6	1,103	3.17%
American Indian*	23.7	2,455	7.07%
Asian*	43.6	325	0.94%
Native Hawaiian*	91.6	5	0.01%
Other*	73.3	19	0.05%
Two or More Races*	25.1	1,789	5.15%
White/Black*	54.7	83	0.24%
White/American Indian*	24.1	1,453	4.18%
White/Asian*	44.1	65	0.19%
White/Other*	56.3	64	0.18%
Other Combinations*	--	124	0.36%
Hispanic	24.4	1,049	3.02%
Total	--	34,748	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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