CensusScope -- Segregation: Dissimilarity Indices

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Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI

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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*	--	2,514,494	84.70%
Black*	64.5	155,429	5.24%
American Indian*	53.1	19,680	0.66%
Asian*	48.4	122,086	4.11%
Native Hawaiian*	80.8	1,094	0.04%
Other*	59.7	4,121	0.14%
Two or More Races*	38.9	52,781	1.78%
White/Black*	47.7	14,121	0.48%
White/American Indian*	40.6	9,483	0.32%
White/Asian*	38.2	9,008	0.30%
White/Other*	64.1	3,575	0.12%
Other Combinations*	--	16,594	0.56%
Hispanic	50.3	99,121	3.34%
Total Population	--	2,968,806	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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