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Title: Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Neighborhoods in Large Urban Areas in the U.S., 1980-2020
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Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: Racial and ethnic residential diversity in urban areas is measured using an index of exposure diversity, which is the mean of diversity within census tracts, and an index of evenness diversity relative to the diversity of the urban area. These indexes are used to examine neighborhood diversity among whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians in 56 large urban areas in the United States from 1980 to 2020. Mean diversity across the urban areas increased dramatically. But substantial differences exist between exposure diversity and evenness diversity. An area with very low exposure diversity can have very high evenness diversity when the overall diversity of the urban area is also low. Diversity tends to be lower in urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest, highest in the West. Lower percent population white and decreases in the white population in the prior decade are associated with higher levels of exposure diversity with just the opposite for blacks, Latinos, and Asians. Average levels of the two measures of diversity increased in both the urban core and suburban periphery, but exposure diversity was higher in the core while evenness diversity was higher in the suburbs.
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Authors: Ottensmann, John R.
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Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Housing and Segregation, Land Use/Urban Organization, Race and Ethnicity
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