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Friday, May 27, 2005

Diversity

I'm sometimes struck by how ethnically diverse many people in Seattle and Portland believe their cities are. From time to time over the years I have commented that in fact these must be the two whitest major cities in the country, and that many people here seem to have no real awareness of that. Recently I looked up the data and found that I was almost right.

Defining "major city" arbitrarily for my purposes (and yet not unreasonably) as a city with at least one big-three sports franchise, I looked at year 2000 census data for Seattle, Portland and any other city I could imagine might challenge them for the dubious distinction at issue (and I couldn't imagine many. Using data from a Census Bureau site, I found that Portland (77.9% white, 6.3% asian, 6.6% black, 6.8% latino) is the whitest major city, followed by Phoenix (71.7%, 2.0%, 5.1%, 34.1%), Seattle (70.1%, 13.1, 8.4%, 5.3%), Denver (65.3%, 2.8%, 11.1%, 31.7%) and Minneapolis (65.1%, 6.1%, 18.0%, 7.6%). So, I was wrong, but barely. Note that latinos can be of any race, which explains percentages adding up to more than 100%.

Think I missed one? Check your nominee at the site I've linked to. Don't bother checking Milwaukee or Sacramento, though--they aren't even close.


posted at 1:06 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger Swizzies said...

Salt Lake City - 79.2% white

August 11, 2005 8:38 AM  
Blogger MWR said...

Now how did I forget that one?

August 11, 2005 9:05 AM  

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