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Table 1. Black-White Segregation (D) in 50 Metro Areas with Largest Black Populations in 2010
2010 Rank Area Name
2010 Segregation
2000 Segregation
1990 Segregation
1980 Segregation
1 Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI 79.6 85.9 85.6 83.0
2 Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 79.6 82.2 82.8 83.9
3 New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ 79.1 81.3 82.0 81.7
4 Newark-Union, NJ-PA 78.0 80.4 82.7 82.8
5 Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL 75.9 80.8 84.6 88.6
6 Philadelphia, PA 73.7 76.5 81.4 82.6
7 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL 73.0 72.4 71.8 79.3
8 Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH 72.6 77.2 82.8 85.8
9 St. Louis, MO-IL 70.6 73.4 77.2 81.6
10 Nassau-Suffolk, NY 69.2 73.6 76.4 76.9
11 Boston-Quincy, MA 67.8 71.5 73.7 79.8
12 Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN 66.9 72.6 75.9 78.2
13 Birmingham-Hoover, AL 65.2 68.9 70.3 72.2
14 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA 65.0 67.4 73.1 81.1
15 Indianapolis-Carmel, IN 64.5 71.0 74.4 78.8
16 Baltimore-Towson, MD 64.3 67.6 71.4 74.4
17 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 64.1 65.9 68.4 71.4
18 New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA 63.3 69.0 68.3 70.0
19 Pittsburgh, PA 63.1 67.4 70.8 73.3
20 Memphis, TN-MS-AR 62.2 65.7 65.5 68.8
21 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX 60.6 65.1 65.5 73.7
22 Columbus, OH 59.9 62.2 67.6 72.9
23 Kansas City, MO-KS 58.6 69.3 72.9 77.7
24 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 58.3 63.9 66.3 76.9
25 Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI 57.9 68.1 76.7 80.5
Two of the most highly segregated metropolitan areas, Detroit and New Orleans, had substantial declines in segregation for the first time since 1980. These changes coincided with very substantial declines in the central city black populations in both areas, New Orleans as a result of Hurricane Katrina and Detroit as part of the fallout from the recession and foreclosure crisis. Detroit experienced a 25 percent decline in population between 2000 and 2010. More positive stories are found in Kansas City, where segregation plummeted by nearly 11 points, and in � � ������������-Troy-Farmington Hills metro area, where segregation declined 10 points. These cases demonstrate that large positive changes are possible within a decade. In contrast, there are several places on this list where segregation now falls into what social scientists consider the moderate range (under 50). These include several mid-sized metropolitan regions in the South: Raleigh, Augusta, Orlando, Columbia, Virginia Beach, and
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Charleston. Bethesda, Riverside, Phoenix, and Las Vegas also fall in this category. In several of these segregation declined by 5 or 10 points, or even more, between 1980 and 2000. But there has been little change since that time. Large Southern cities provide examples of persistent segregation: Birmingham, Memphis, and Baton Rouge fit into this category. But others have seen improvements � and Atlanta is the outstanding example, having experienced more change though it still falls among the top 25 on this list. Table 1. Black-White Segregation (D) in 50 Metro Areas (continued) 2010 Rank Area name
2010 Segregation
2000 Segregation
1990 Segregation
1980 Segregation
26 Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL 57.6 61.5 69.0 83.8
27 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, FL 57.3 65.2 75.3 83.3
28 Baton Rouge, LA 57.1 60.1 59.6 68.2
29 Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, CA 56.6 62.2 68.0 74.0
30 Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 56.3 59.5 62.2 78.1
31 Jackson, MS 55.8 57.4 62.4 68.6
32 Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX 55.1 59.0 62.7 77.9
33 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN 55.0 57.6 60.7 65.2
34 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 54.3 63.5 69.7 78.2
35 Greensboro-High Point, NC 54.1 53.6 54.3 58.5
36 Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC 53.1 53.9 54.7 58.0
37 Camden, NJ 52.3 56.2 59.5 60.1
38 Jacksonville, FL 52.1 53.4 57.8 67.7
39 Richmond, VA 51.6 53.2 55.6 63.0
40 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 50.2 57.8 62.3 67.7
41 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 49.3 55.2 59.1 71.0
42 Columbia, SC 48.3 47.9 50.4 57.4
43 Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, MD 47.9 46.3 42.7 43.9
44 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 46.9 46.1 49.5 59.7
45 Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC 44.6 43.9 43.9 46.7
46 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 44.0 45.5 43.8 52.7
47 Raleigh-Cary, NC 41.4 40.5 41.9 46.2
48 Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ 41.3 43.3 50.1 61.4
49 Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville, SC 40.8 43.9 47.8 53.4
50 Las Vegas-Paradise, NV 35.9 39.0 49.0 62.9 "
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Table 4. Hispanic-White Segregation (D) in 50 Metro Areas with Largest Hispanic Populations in 2010 2010 Rank Area name
2010 Segregation
2000 Segregation
1990 Segregation
1980 Segregation
1 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA 63.4 63.1 61.1 57.3
2 New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ 63.1 65.4 65.0 65.2
3 Newark-Union, NJ-PA 62.6 65.1 67.1 67.0
4 Boston-Quincy, MA 62.0 64.8 62.4 61.8
5 Salinas, CA 60.9 58.8 56.9 55.1
6 Philadelphia, PA 58.8 61.8 63.4 64.0
7 Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL 57.0 61.2 62.5 64.3
8 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA 54.5 56.1 52.3 53.3
9 Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA 54.1 55.1 49.8 42.3
10 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX 52.5 53.4 47.8 47.6
11 Bakersfield-Delano, CA 52.3 53.8 55.4 54.4
12 Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX 51.9 53.5 49.7 48.5
13 San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA 50.1 53.5 49.8 45.5
14 San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA 49.6 50.6 45.3 41.8
15 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 49.4 51.6 35.3 30.3
16 Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ 49.3 52.1 48.6 52.2
17 Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, MD 48.8 46.5 37.6 29.9
18 Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO 48.8 50.2 46.6 48.7
19 Nassau-Suffolk, NY 48.5 46.9 42.3 37.1
20 Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, CA 48.3 46.9 38.8 36.5
21 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 48.1 47.7 43.2 32.3
22 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 47.6 50.7 47.9 45.2
23 Edison-New Brunswick, NJ 46.9 49.1 45.1 47.1
24 Fresno, CA 46.5 46.9 47.8 46.5
25 Tucson, AZ 46.2 48.8 49.7 52.7
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Table 4. Hispanic-White Segregation (D) in 50 Metro Areas (continued) 2010 Rank Area name
2010 Segregation
2000 Segregation
1990 Segregation
1980 Segregation
26 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX 46.1 49.7 52.1 57.5
27 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL 46.1 43.9 50.3 52.5
28 Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 45.6 47.7 44.7 47.6
29 Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, CA 45.3 45.9 41.4 38.7
30 El Paso, TX 43.3 45.2 49.7 53.8
31 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX 43.2 45.6 41.7 45.5
32 Salt Lake City, UT 42.9 41.2 31.4 31.3
33 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, FL 42.6 42.5 41.9 43.1
34 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 42.5 46.5 35.5 36.4
35 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 42.4 42.5 35.8 38.1
36 Corpus Christi, TX 42.2 46.3 47.9 52.1
37 Las Vegas-Paradise, NV 42.0 42.4 28.8 22.5
38 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 40.7 44.4 45.3 49.8
39 Brownsville-Harlingen, TX 40.2 41.2 39.8 37.6
40 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 40.2 38.7 29.2 28.6
41 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX 39.2 39.5 37.9 41.0
42 Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA 38.8 40.3 37.0 36.6
43 Visalia-Porterville, CA 37.5 40.2 38.9 36.6
44 Albuquerque, NM 36.4 39.8 40.5 45.0
45 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 34.3 34.2 25.6 20.3
46 Modesto, CA 34.2 35.2 33.4 35.9
47 Stockton, CA 34.1 36.4 36.1 37.7
48 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA 33.3 30.2 20.3 18.9
49 Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL 33.2 31.0 25.9 26.2
50 Laredo, TX 30.7 28.1 33.8 41.6 # #
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Table 7. Asian-White Segregation (D) in 40 Metro Areas with Largest Asian Populations in 2010 2010 Rank Area Name
2010 Segregation
2000 Segregation
1990 Segregation
1980 Segregation
1 Edison-New Brunswick, NJ 53.7 49.6 42.2 39.0
2 New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ 49.5 48.9 46.7 48.5
3 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX 48.7 50.0 48.0 44.8
4 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA 47.6 48.2 46.2 47.3
5 Boston-Quincy, MA 47.4 52.0 52.2 58.7
6 Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA 46.8 47.2 48.1 46.6
7 San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA 46.7 48.6 50.2 51.3
8 Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI 46.3 46.3 44.2 41.0
9 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 46.2 45.3 42.5 34.5
10 Stockton, CA 45.9 48.5 55.7 42.1
11 Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX 44.4 43.8 41.6 38.7
12 San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA 44.3 46.7 48.1 45.5
13 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 43.0 41.9 38.8 30.9
14 Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, CA 42.3 41.0 39.2 37.8
15 Philadelphia, PA 41.8 44.8 44.4 40.5
16 Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL 41.7 43.6 45.1 46.0
17 Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA 41.6 40.0 33.3 27.7
18 Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 41.1 41.4 41.0 36.2
19 Baltimore-Towson, MD 40.9 39.1 38.3 37.8
20 St. Louis, MO-IL 40.8 42.0 40.0 37.8
21 Honolulu, HI 40.1 39.7 38.0 41.0
22 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 39.6 42.7 41.6 29.9
23 Vallejo-Fairfield, CA 38.4 41.2 40.4 36.2
24 Nassau-Suffolk, NY 38.4 35.4 32.5 30.7
25 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX 38.3 40.0 39.4 35.1
26 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 38.2 37.2 33.3 28.9
27 Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, MD 37.5 37.9 33.9 29.9
28 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 36.5 36.7 34.2 31.0
29 Newark-Union, NJ-PA 35.6 35.7 31.4 30.9
30 Fresno, CA 35.3 36.1 43.5 25.7
31 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA 33.2 34.3 36.6 39.1
32 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 33.1 33.4 33.8 31.6
33 Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA 32.4 35.0 34.8 33.7
34 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 32.3 34.0 29.4 30.0
35 Tacoma, WA 31.5 33.7 36.8 33.2
36 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 31.5 31.7 31.2 28.4
37 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 31.3 34.0 35.7 37.7
38 Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO 30.0 29.6 29.3 25.8
39 Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ 29.9 27.9 28.1 27.1
40 Las Vegas-Paradise, NV 26.8 23.5 23.3 21.9 #
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