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*	--	62,485	83.47%
Black*	25.0	2,728	3.64%
American Indian*	13.8	2,934	3.92%
Asian*	38.3	1,413	1.89%
Native Hawaiian*	68.6	38	0.05%
Other*	54.8	73	0.10%
Two or More Races*	14.6	2,524	3.37%
White/Black*	36.5	185	0.25%
White/American Indian*	15.5	1,744	2.33%
White/Asian*	31.0	203	0.27%
White/Other*	40.5	158	0.21%
Other Combinations*	--	234	0.31%
Hispanic	19.1	2,664	3.56%
Total	--	74,859	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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