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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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-- |
68,980 |
78.36% |
Black* |
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41.0 |
1,846 |
2.10% |
American Indian* |
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54.7 |
129 |
0.15% |
Asian* |
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34.5 |
13,519 |
15.36% |
Native Hawaiian* |
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87.4 |
19 |
0.02% |
Other* |
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49.9 |
290 |
0.33% |
Two or More Races* |
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33.5 |
1,407 |
1.60% |
White/Black* |
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53.8 |
163 |
0.19% |
White/American Indian* |
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45.1 |
128 |
0.15% |
White/Asian* |
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48.1 |
251 |
0.29% |
White/Other* |
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48.7 |
534 |
0.61% |
Other Combinations* |
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-- |
331 |
0.38% |
Hispanic |
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27.6 |
1,835 |
2.08% |
Total |
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88,025 |
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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