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*	--	642	2.37%
Black*	25.8	37	0.14%
American Indian*	35.8	55	0.20%
Asian*	30.4	452	1.67%
Native Hawaiian*	69.3	2	0.01%
Other*	65.2	7	0.03%
Two or More Races*	21.8	82	0.30%
White/Black*	55.9	2	0.01%
White/American Indian*	82.7	2	0.01%
White/Asian*	41.8	26	0.10%
White/Other*	45.3	25	0.09%
Other Combinations*	--	27	0.10%
Hispanic	17.0	25,832	95.29%
Total	--	27,109	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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