Abstract
The Urban Institute's MetroTrends research team has created an interactive report card on racial and ethnic equity in the nation's top 100 metropolitan areas. A brief commentary by Margery Austin Turner, the Institute's vice president for research, accompanies the map.
Contact: Stu Kantor, (202) 261-5283, skantor@urban.org
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 2, 2012 -- The Urban Institute's MetroTrends research team has created an interactive report card on racial and ethnic equity in the nation's top 100 metropolitan areas. A brief commentary by Margery Austin Turner, the Institute's vice president for research, accompanies the map.
The report card scores metros on five factors: residential segregation, neighborhood affluence, public school quality, employment, and homeownership.
The 10 best metros for black-white equity:
1. Albuquerque, NM
2. El Paso, TX
3. Lakeland–Winter Haven, FL
4. Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, FL
5. Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura, CA
6. Santa Rosa–Petaluma, CA
7. Tucson, AZ
8. Modesto, CA
9. Honolulu, HI
10. Greenville–Mauldin–Easley, SC
And the 10 worst:
91. Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington, PA–NJ–DE–MD
92. Rochester, NY
93. Albany–Schenectady–Troy, NY
94. Toledo, OH
95. Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk, CT
96. New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island, NY–NJ–PA
97. Syracuse, NY
98. Buffalo–Niagara Falls, NY
99. Chicago–Naperville-Joliet, IL–IN–WI
100. Milwaukee–Waukesha–West Allis, WI
For Latino-white equity, the 10 best metros:
1. Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, FL
2. Pittsburgh, PA
3. Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, ME
4. Jacksonville, FL
5. Dayton, OH
6. St. Louis, MO–IL
7. McAllen–Edinburg–Mission, TX
8. Lakeland–Winter Haven, FL
9. El Paso, TX
10. Akron, OH
And the 10 worst:
91. New Haven–Milford, CT
92. Syracuse, NY
93. Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington, PA–NJ–DE–MD
94. Boston–Cambridge–Quincy, MA–NH
95. Worcester, MA
96. Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk, CT
97. New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island, NY–NJ–PA
98. Providence–New Bedford–Fall River, RI–MA
99. Hartford–West Hartford–East Hartford, CT
100. Springfield, MA
The map combines data from the 2010 Census and Brown University's USA2010 project. It allows users to
- see the national picture of high- and low-scoring metros for African Americans and Latinos;
- find a metro's score (and how it performs on all the underlying factors) on the map by mousing over and clicking on it;
- modify the grading system by adjusting the weights on any or all of the factors; and
- download data for all 100 metro areas.
MetroTrends, the Urban Institute's report card and toolkit on the state of metropolitan economies, features up-to-date charts and figures, expert commentaries, and downloadable datasets. The MetroTrends blog presents seasoned voices on the changes and challenges facing metropolitan America. MetroTrends is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research and educational organization that examines the social, economic, and governance challenges facing the nation. It provides information, analyses, and perspectives to public and private decisionmakers to help them address these problems and strives to deepen citizens' understanding of the issues and tradeoffs that policymakers face.
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