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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
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Dissimilarity Index |
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Percent of |
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With Whites* |
Population** |
Total Population |
White* |
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601,851 |
30.81% |
Black* |
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75.5 |
487,851 |
24.97% |
American Indian* |
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46.5 |
3,234 |
0.17% |
Asian* |
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49.9 |
102,706 |
5.26% |
Native Hawaiian* |
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73.6 |
680 |
0.03% |
Other* |
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55.5 |
2,614 |
0.13% |
Two or More Races* |
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40.0 |
23,830 |
1.22% |
White/Black* |
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57.0 |
2,701 |
0.14% |
White/American Indian* |
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39.5 |
2,494 |
0.13% |
White/Asian* |
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41.7 |
4,447 |
0.23% |
White/Other* |
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47.0 |
5,670 |
0.29% |
Other Combinations* |
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-- |
8,518 |
0.44% |
Hispanic |
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61.5 |
730,865 |
37.41% |
Total |
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1,953,631 |
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). Home | About | Help | Contact | Use Policy
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