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Quantifying Separate and UnequalRacial-Ethnic Distributions of Neighborhood Poverty in Metropolitan AmericaNortheastern University, Boston, tosypuk{at}neu.edu
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston Researchers measuring racial inequality of neighborhood environment across metropolitan areas have traditionally used segregation measures; yet such measures are limited for incorporating a third axis of information, including neighborhood opportunity. Using Census 2000 tract-level data for the largest U.S. metropolitan areas, the authors introduce the interquartile-range overlap statistic to summarize the substantial separation of entire distributions of neighborhood environments between racial groups. They find that neighborhood poverty distributions for minorities overlap only 27%, compared to the distributions for Whites. Furthermore, the separation of racial groups into neighborhoods of differing poverty rates is strongly correlated with racial residential segregation. The overlap statistic provides a straightforward, policy-relevant metric for monitoring progress toward achieving more equal environments of neighborhood opportunity space.
Key Words: concentrated poverty • neighborhood • neighborhood poverty • race and ethnicity • racial inequality • geography of opportunity • residential segregation
This version was published on September
1, 2009 Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 45, No. 1,
25-65 (2009) |
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