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*	--	35,817	82.97%
Black*	32.1	5,211	12.07%
American Indian*	37.8	148	0.34%
Asian*	29.8	536	1.24%
Native Hawaiian*	70.9	13	0.03%
Other*	63.5	38	0.09%
Two or More Races*	21.4	421	0.98%
White/Black*	33.1	104	0.24%
White/American Indian*	35.9	134	0.31%
White/Asian*	31.7	75	0.17%
White/Other*	63.5	18	0.04%
Other Combinations*	--	90	0.21%
Hispanic	38.4	983	2.28%
Total	--	43,167	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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