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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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323,136 |
74.09% |
Black* |
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81.2 |
88,356 |
20.26% |
American Indian* |
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36.3 |
2,171 |
0.50% |
Asian* |
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50.0 |
3,487 |
0.80% |
Native Hawaiian* |
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89.1 |
80 |
0.02% |
Other* |
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67.8 |
541 |
0.12% |
Two or More Races* |
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38.6 |
8,218 |
1.88% |
White/Black* |
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56.0 |
2,125 |
0.49% |
White/American Indian* |
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35.4 |
2,695 |
0.62% |
White/Asian* |
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48.9 |
703 |
0.16% |
White/Other* |
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54.5 |
752 |
0.17% |
Other Combinations* |
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-- |
1,943 |
0.45% |
Hispanic |
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32.0 |
10,152 |
2.33% |
Total Population |
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436,141 |
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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