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Sunday, November 3, 2002
About this report
By The Detroit News
To analyze segregation across income levels, The Detroit News calculated the "index of dissimilarity," a common measure of residential living patterns. The index compares the proportion of two groups -- wealthy whites and blacks, for instance -- in each neighborhood to that of the entire metropolitan area.
The newspaper used its findings to measure segregation in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas. Demographers reviewed the results.
On a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being the most segregated, whites and blacks in Metro Detroit consistently rank in the 80s. That suggests that 80 percent of either population would have to move to achieve so-called "perfect" integration, in which the makeup of every census tract mirrors the overall makeup of the Metro area.
The analysis was based on the 2000 census long form, sent to one of every six households. The News excluded other races because blacks and whites together make up 94 percent of Metro Detroiters.
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