| Oklahoma Cities Ranked by White/Black Dissimilarity Index | |||||
| Rank | City | Black Population | White Population | Total Population | Dissimilarity Index |
| 1. | Muskogee city | 6,813 | 22,983 | 38,310 | 62.5 |
| 2. | Tulsa city | 60,297 | 263,782 | 393,049 | 60.3 |
| 3. | Oklahoma City city | 76,994 | 327,225 | 506,132 | 59.0 |
| 4. | Midwest City city | 10,492 | 36,575 | 54,088 | 50.0 |
| 5. | Bartlesville city | 1,103 | 28,003 | 34,748 | 46.6 |
| 6. | Stillwater city | 1,666 | 31,745 | 39,065 | 37.6 |
| 7. | Ponca City city* | 767 | 21,374 | 25,919 | 37.0 |
| 8. | Norman city | 4,022 | 76,852 | 95,694 | 36.1 |
| 9. | Shawnee city | 1,160 | 21,742 | 28,692 | 35.4 |
| 10. | Edmond city | 2,721 | 58,104 | 68,315 | 34.4 |
| 11. | Enid city | 1,815 | 40,109 | 47,045 | 33.3 |
| 12. | Broken Arrow city | 2,728 | 62,485 | 74,859 | 25.0 |
| 13. | Lawton city | 20,937 | 53,605 | 92,757 | 24.4 |
| 14. | Moore city | 1,181 | 33,765 | 41,138 | 23.6 |
* 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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