CensusScope -- Segregation: Dissimilarity Indices

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South Carolina

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SEGREGATION: DISSIMILARITY INDICES

South Carolina Cities Ranked by White/Black Dissimilarity Index
Rank	City	Black Population	White Population	Total Population	Dissimilarity Index
1.	Florence city	13,481	15,944	30,248	72.9
2.	Hilton Head Island town	2,758	26,752	33,862	70.5
3.	Greenville city	18,866	33,917	56,002	69.5
4.	Aiken city	7,623	16,693	25,337	67.9
5.	Spartanburg city	19,559	18,433	39,673	64.0
6.	Columbia city	53,052	55,993	116,278	63.8
7.	Charleston city	32,688	60,187	96,650	63.8
8.	Sumter city	18,256	19,300	39,643	61.7
9.	Anderson city	8,653	15,935	25,514	61.0
10.	Rock Hill city	18,484	28,648	49,765	56.6
11.	Mount Pleasant town	3,445	42,515	47,609	46.8
12.	North Charleston city	39,096	34,443	79,641	45.9
13.	Summerville town	5,355	21,131	27,752	41.2
14.	Goose Creek city	4,099	22,386	29,208	18.0

* 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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