Louisville, KY-IN

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* -- 840,677 81.97%
Black* 68.6 141,745 13.82%
American Indian* 45.5 2,168 0.21%
Asian* 50.6 10,925 1.07%
Native Hawaiian* 81.0 292 0.03%
Other* 61.3 1,383 0.13%
Two or More Races* 35.3 11,929 1.16%
White/Black* 49.5 3,640 0.35%
White/American Indian* 38.1 2,923 0.29%
White/Asian* 49.9 1,534 0.15%
White/Other* 64.8 1,365 0.13%
Other Combinations* -- 2,467 0.24%
Hispanic 42.0 16,479 1.61%
Total Population -- 1,025,598 100.00%

* 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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