Indexes of Dissimilarity Showing Racial Residential Segregation for the
Detroit Metropolitan Area: 1980, 1990 and 2000
NOTE: These data refer to the six-county Detroit
Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area: Lapeer, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St.
Clair and Wayne Counties.
The index of dissimilarity measures the evenness with which two distinct groups
are spread across the component geographic units of a city or metropolis.
The index would take on its maximum value of 100 were all members of each
group confined to geographic units made up exclusively of their own group;
i.e., total Apartheid. If individuals were randomly assigned to place of residence,
the index of dissimilarity would approach its minimum value of zero.
SOURCE: www.albany.edu/mumford/census