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*	--	22,983	59.99%
Black*	62.5	6,813	17.78%
American Indian*	13.8	4,628	12.08%
Asian*	47.5	337	0.88%
Native Hawaiian*	85.2	7	0.02%
Other*	71.2	32	0.08%
Two or More Races*	16.5	2,252	5.88%
White/Black*	48.4	120	0.31%
White/American Indian*	12.1	1,622	4.23%
White/Asian*	55.3	39	0.10%
White/Other*	71.1	26	0.07%
Other Combinations*	--	445	1.16%
Hispanic	33.6	1,258	3.28%
Total	--	38,310	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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