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*	--	263,782	67.11%
Black*	60.3	60,297	15.34%
American Indian*	27.0	18,005	4.58%
Asian*	41.2	7,096	1.81%
Native Hawaiian*	72.8	165	0.04%
Other*	55.9	458	0.12%
Two or More Races*	24.7	15,135	3.85%
White/Black*	44.5	1,531	0.39%
White/American Indian*	23.2	8,869	2.26%
White/Asian*	41.8	943	0.24%
White/Other*	49.1	820	0.21%
Other Combinations*	--	2,972	0.76%
Hispanic	43.5	28,111	7.15%
Total	--	393,049	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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