Score
White Community
Higher non-Hispanic White population share scores higher using ACS place data.
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
White Community rewards places with stronger ACS community presence for non-Hispanic White residents.
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The non-Hispanic White count is divided by total population to calculate place share.
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Shares are shrunk toward the all-place mean when population denominators are small.
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The final score blends 55% tempered log-saturated share and 45% tempered log-saturated absolute group count.
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 White Community.
What This Score Means
White Community rewards places with stronger ACS community presence for non-Hispanic White residents.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Total populationSource: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
ACS total population for the place.
- Group countsSource: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
ACS mutually exclusive race/ethnicity count for non-Hispanic White.
- Population shareSource: Derived from ACS inputs
Group count divided by total population.
- Estimate confidenceSource: Derived from ACS inputs
Derived confidence based on denominator size and shrinkage behavior.
Source Data
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 White Community.