{"id":3499,"date":"2007-07-08T20:41:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/08\/least-segregated-cities-for-blacks-in-2000\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T20:41:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T04:01:46","slug":"least-segregated-cities-for-blacks-in-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3499","title":{"rendered":"Least Segregated Cities For Blacks in 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my continuing posts on segregation, I\u00a0am adding lists of the least and most segregated\u00a0metro areas\u00a0for Blacks,\u00a0Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans.\u00a0 I’m posting the least segregated\u00a0metros for each group here at Alas, and I’ll post\u00a0both the least and\u00a0most segregated cities at Rachel’s Tavern<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This post is a follow-up to an earlier post, you can look at this post from a few days ago<\/a>\u00a0where I discuss the different dimensions of residential segregation.\u00a0 That post discusses a few of the methodological issues, and it links to the Census Bureau report where the data comes from.\u00a0 So if you are confused about the differences, between\u00a0clustering and exposure (for example), you can get more information from that post.\u00a0 If you link to the actual Census report, they show statistical formulas that are used in calculating segregation using each method described.\u00a0 They also discuss other issues related to measuring segregation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You should also keep in mind this is only measuring segregation for Blacks, and it’s only measuring urban segregation.<\/strong>\u00a0 I am preparing future posts Asians, Latinos and Native Americans.<\/p>\n

All data comes from the US Census Bureau<\/p>\n

5 Most Even Metro Areas\u00a0(cities where blacks are\u00a0most evenly spread; the\u00a0statistical formula represents the percent of people who would have to move for the group to be evenly distributed across the metro area)<\/p>\n

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  1. Orange County, CA<\/li>\n
  2. San Jose<\/li>\n
  3. Phoenix, Mesa<\/li>\n
  4. Riverside, San Bernadino, CA<\/li>\n
  5. Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    5\u00a0Highest Exposure\u00a0Metros (cities where blacks have highest chance of having contact with whites)<\/p>\n

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    1. Orange County, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n
    2. San Jose<\/li>\n
    3. Portland, Vancouver<\/li>\n
    4. Phoenix, Mesa<\/li>\n
    5. Seattle, Bellevue, Everett<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      5\u00a0Least Concentrated\u00a0Metros (cities where blacks are\u00a0least densely concentrated\/most spread throughout the metro area)<\/p>\n

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      1. Orange County, CA<\/li>\n
      2. Atlanta<\/li>\n
      3. Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News<\/li>\n
      4. Phoenix-Mesa<\/li>\n
      5. Cincinnati<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        5\u00a0Least Centralized Cities (cities where blacks are\u00a0least concentrated in\u00a0the central core of the city)<\/p>\n

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        1. Nassau, Suffolk (Long Island, NY)<\/li>\n
        2. Orange County, CA<\/li>\n
        3. Oakland, CA<\/li>\n
        4. Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater<\/li>\n
        5. Newark<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          5\u00a0Least Clustered Cities<\/p>\n

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          1. Orange County, CA<\/li>\n
          2. San Jose<\/li>\n
          3. Phoenix, Mesa<\/li>\n
          4. Portland, Vancouver<\/li>\n
          5. Seattle, Bellevue, Everett<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            The 10 Least Segregated Cities (Averaging all five dimensions of segregation)<\/p>\n

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            1. Orange County California<\/li>\n
            2. San Jose<\/li>\n
            3. Norfolk-Virginia Beach<\/li>\n
            4. Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater<\/li>\n
            5. San Diego<\/li>\n
            6. Providence, Fall River, Warwick<\/li>\n
            7. Seattle, Bellevue, Everett<\/li>\n
            8. San Antonio<\/li>\n
            9. Oakland, CA<\/li>\n
            10. San Francisco<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              A few notes final notes:<\/p>\n

              The western US does very well, in particular California’s suburban areas. Southern cities do better than most people would expect.\u00a0 They tend to be in the middle of the pack, but they lean toward the less segregated side.\u00a0I also think the centralization measure really doesn’t work well when the metro area is a suburban area, since they are not organized around a central core.\u00a0 The Nassau Suffolk area, only scores well on centralization because the 3-4 towns with large black populations are not close to each other, and there is no central area since it is all suburbs.\u00a0 In fact, that same metro area is the 10th most segregated on eveness (which is the most commonly used measure of segregation).\u00a0 Atlanta is also an interesting case because it does very well on concentration, which reflects the large number of predominantly black suburban areas in Atlanta.\u00a0 However, the reason Atlanta doesn’t do as well on the other measures is because the individual towns themselves are often relatively segregated.<\/p>\n

              I know some people will be tempted to say, hey I’ve been to _____ and it is fairly segregated.\u00a0 Keep in mind this is just how the cities compare to each other, and the segregation numbers for African Americans are considerably higher than they are for all other minority groups.\u00a0 For example, in Orange County, CA, which is by far the least segregated area on almost every dimension, 37% of African Americans would have to move to other areas for African Americans to be evenly spread throughout the area.\u00a0The overall average number of people who would have to move for the group (we’re talking ALL metro areas)\u00a0to be evenly spread throughout the metro area is 64% for blacks, 50% for Latinos, 41% for Asians, and 33% for American Indians and Alaska Natives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              In my continuing posts on segregation, I\u00a0am adding lists of the least and most segregated\u00a0metro areas\u00a0for Blacks,\u00a0Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans.\u00a0 I’m posting the least segregated\u00a0metros for each group here at Alas, and I’ll post\u00a0both the least and\u00a0most segregated cities … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}