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Racial / Ethnic Diversity

Higher confidence-weighted ACS race/ethnicity diversity scores higher using mutually exclusive place-level groups.

Scale0-100

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.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Racial / Ethnic Diversity rewards places with a more even distribution across mutually exclusive ACS race and Hispanic/Latino ethnicity groups.

  1. 1

    The diversity index is 1 minus the sum of squared adjusted group shares.

  2. 2

    The index is multiplied by the square root of estimate confidence so tiny uncertain places do not dominate.

  3. 3

    The result is normalized from observed p05 to observed max.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Racial / Ethnic Diversity.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Racial / Ethnic Diversity rewards places with a more even distribution across mutually exclusive ACS race and Hispanic/Latino ethnicity groups.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Total population

    ACS total population for the place.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
  • Group counts

    ACS mutually exclusive race/ethnicity count for all mutually exclusive groups.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
  • Population share

    Group count divided by total population.

    Source: Derived from ACS inputs
  • Estimate confidence

    Derived confidence based on denominator size and shrinkage behavior.

    Source: Derived from ACS inputs

Source Data

Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-YearCensus ACS 5-year estimates for housing, income, population, occupation, education, and race/ethnicity inputs at place, county, or CBSA geography depending on the score.

Known Limits

  • Community scores describe ACS place-level presence using both population share and absolute group count.
  • They are not value judgments, neighborhood fit guarantees, lived-experience measures, or legal-climate measures.
  • Small denominators are shrunk toward the all-place mean, and diversity is confidence-weighted.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Racial / Ethnic Diversity.

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