Ohio

SEGREGATION: DISSIMILARITY INDICES

Ohio Cities Ranked by White/Black Dissimilarity Index
Rank City Black Population White Population Total Population Dissimilarity Index
1. Garfield Heights city 5,143 24,577 30,734 80.7
2. Cleveland city 241,512 185,641 478,403 79.4
3. Dayton city 71,291 87,487 166,179 78.3
4. Hamilton city 4,562 53,386 60,690 68.7
5. Toledo city 73,134 212,658 313,619 67.0
6. Barberton city 1,482 25,662 27,899 65.9
7. Youngstown city 35,440 40,100 82,026 64.2
8. Cincinnati city 141,534 173,781 331,285 63.0
9. Akron city 61,510 144,719 217,074 61.5
10. Columbus city 172,750 475,897 711,470 61.0
11. Springfield city 11,832 50,663 65,358 60.6
12. Middletown city 5,447 44,658 51,605 59.6
13. Massillon city 2,934 27,422 31,325 56.6
14. Euclid city 16,038 34,678 52,717 56.2
15. East Cleveland city 25,291 1,219 27,217 55.6
16. Parma city* 901 81,102 85,655 54.4
17. Warren city 11,730 33,420 46,832 53.4
18. Shaker Heights city 9,985 17,434 29,405 53.1
19. Mansfield city 9,655 37,547 49,346 52.7
20. Medina city* 687 23,607 25,139 51.0
21. Cleveland Heights city 20,752 25,840 49,958 50.3
22. Canton city 16,875 59,653 80,806 50.0
23. Cuyahoga Falls city* 918 47,102 49,374 48.6
24. Marion city 2,465 31,658 35,318 48.4
25. Lorain city 10,286 41,935 68,652 46.4
26. Maple Heights city 11,547 13,382 26,156 46.3
27. Elyria city 7,831 44,747 55,953 43.6
28. Kettering city* 942 54,338 57,502 41.5
29. Zanesville city 2,731 21,740 25,586 39.7
30. Lima city 10,533 27,408 40,081 37.9
31. Sandusky city 5,833 20,317 27,844 37.2
32. Lancaster city* 214 34,220 35,335 37.1
33. Lakewood city 1,088 51,921 56,646 36.4
34. Fairborn city 1,997 27,646 32,052 35.8
35. Westlake city* 299 29,199 31,719 35.7
36. Upper Arlington city* 198 31,647 33,686 35.3
37. North Olmsted city* 341 31,666 34,113 34.1
38. Trotwood city 15,953 10,501 27,420 33.0
39. Delaware city* 956 23,269 25,243 32.7
40. Newark city 1,422 43,312 46,279 32.0
41. Brunswick city* 244 32,107 33,388 30.2
42. Grove City city* 405 25,836 27,075 30.0
43. Fairfield city 2,526 37,450 42,097 29.9
44. Bowling Green city* 810 26,839 29,636 28.5
45. North Royalton city* 200 27,356 28,648 27.4
46. Findlay city* 521 35,763 38,967 26.7
47. Reynoldsburg city 3,325 26,946 32,069 26.7
48. Kent city 2,533 23,807 27,906 26.0
49. Mentor city* 324 48,650 50,278 25.7
50. Westerville city 1,115 32,803 35,318 25.5
51. Stow city* 492 30,415 32,139 25.4
52. Strongsville city* 533 40,929 43,858 23.8
53. Beavercreek city* 537 35,190 37,984 21.1
54. Gahanna city 2,636 27,966 32,636 19.5
55. Dublin city* 527 27,901 31,392 18.8
56. Huber Heights city 3,703 32,075 38,212 18.6

* 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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