Recent Trends in Residential Segregation in The United States
The Index of Dissimilarity allows measurement of residential segregation using census data. It uses United States census data to analyze housing patterns based on five dimensions of segregation: evenness (how evenly the population is dispersed across an area), isolation (within an area), concentration (in densely packed neighborhoods), centralization (near metropolitan centers), and clustering (into contiguous ghettos). Hypersegregation is high segregation across all dimensions.
Another tool used to measure residential segregation is the neighborhood sorting indices, showing income segregation between different levels of the income distribution.
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