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An Equity Profile of Orange County
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50%
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43%
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46%
Black
Latino
API
Native
American
Latino
API
Native
American
White
Black
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50%
34%
42%
41%
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The dissimilarity index estimates the share of
a given racial/ethnic group that would need
to move to a new neighborhood to achieve
complete integration with the other group.
Using this measure, residential segregation
between whites and all other groups has
increased since 1990. Around 53 percent of
Latinos, 47 percent of African Americans and
43 percent of Asian Americans/Pacific
Islanders (API) would need to move in order
to achieve full integration with whites.
It is also noticeable that residential
segregation has increased significantly for
some groups. Whites and APIs are much more
segregated now than they were in 1990
(around a 10 percentage point difference).
Segregation has increased between whites and all other racial/ethnic groups
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70. Residential Segregation, 1990 and 2016, Measured by the Dissimilarity Index
Source: U.S. Census Bureau; Geolytics.
Note: Data reported are the dissimilarity index for each combination of racial/ethnic groups. Data for 2016 represent a 2012 through 2016 average. See the "Data
and methods" section for details on the residential segregation index calculations.
Segregation is on the rise between most groups
