Score
Economic Diversity
More balanced ACS resident industry mix scores higher after small-denominator smoothing.
Higher values rank better for this score.
How It's Calculated
The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.
How the ranking is built
Economic Diversity rewards places whose employed residents are spread across a more balanced mix of industries.
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Industry sector counts are smoothed toward the all-place industry distribution.
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The diversity index blends normalized entropy with inverse concentration.
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The smoothed diversity index is population-weighted percentile-ranked, so more balanced economies score higher.
Technical details
Read from the current master score table for this criterion.
The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Economic Diversity.
What This Score Means
Economic Diversity rewards places whose employed residents are spread across a more balanced mix of industries.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Industry countsSource: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
ACS resident employment counts across 13 broad industry sectors.
- Industry diversity indexSource: Derived from ACS inputs
A blended entropy and concentration index after small-denominator smoothing.
- Top industry shareSource: Derived from ACS inputs
Largest single industry sector share among employed residents.
Source Data
Known Limits
- These are ACS place-level resident proxies, not live job postings, employer locations, occupation-specific salary offers, or metro commute-shed demand.
- ACS values are multi-year estimates and can lag current labor-market changes.
- Small labor-force and industry denominators are shrunk toward all-place means.
- Wage Opportunity is not cost-of-living adjusted; combine it with affordability scores for buying-power preferences.
Top 10 Locations
Ranked by Economic Diversity.