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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
How Racially and Ethnically Diverse Is Your Neighborhood?
Where are the most racially and ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the United States?
In 2020, Anchorage, Alaska had the top four most diverse census tracts (small county subdivisions used to represent neighborhoods) and Indiana the nation’s two least diverse, according to an interactive tool and supplemental tables from the Census Bureau.
The concept of diversity refers to the representation and relative size of different racial and ethnic groups within a population, where diversity is maximized when all groups are represented in an area and have equal shares of the population.
The diversity index is the chance that two people chosen at random will be from different race and ethnicity groups. A value of 0 indicates that everyone in the population has the same racial and ethnic characteristics. A value close to 100 indicates that almost everyone in the population has different racial and ethnic characteristics.
Continue reading to learn more about:
- The most and least diverse neighborhoods
- Our new interactive visualization and data tables
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