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Old 01-11-2010, 07:47 AM
 
Location: Colorado Springs,CO
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Oh with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. And try and post stats for cities too.

Starting off I'd give my area a 4 or 5/10. Using city-datas stats here is the demographics for Colorado Springs, as well as the suburbs. We don't have very many burbs so Im gonna put most of them down. Im just doing the three biggest races percentage wise too, you can do it whatever way you want.

Colorado Springs-380,307
White-286,371 75.3%
Hispanic-45,637 12%
Black-25,100 6.6%

Air Force Academy-8,908
White-7,055 79.2%
Hispanic-775 8.7%
Black-517 5.8%

Cimarron Hills-17,177
White-12,556 73.1%
Hispanic-2,027 11.8%
Black-1,374 8%

Fountain-19,669
White-13,631 69.3%
Hispanic-2,970 15.1%
Black-1,711 8.7%

Fort Carson-11,945
White-6,892 57.7%
Black-2,389 20%
Hispanic-1,840 15.4%

Security-Widefield-45,043
White-30,990 68.8%
Hispanic-5,675 12.6%
Black-4,730 10.5%

Stratmoor-7,518
White-4,436 59%
Hispanic-1,474 19.6%
Black-925 12.3%
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Old 01-11-2010, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Houston: 3 out of 10 (3rd Ward)

Waco: 4 out of 10 (North Waco)

EDIT:
Oh wait your talking about whole cities??

Houston: 8 out of 10
Waco: 4.5 out of 10

Last edited by blkgiraffe; 01-11-2010 at 09:37 AM..
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Old 01-11-2010, 09:32 AM
 
Location: South Beach and DT Raleigh
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Miami Beach's diversity is difficult to categorize in terms used for many other American Cities. On the one hand, it's not terribly racially diverse with almost 87% of the city identified as White. On another hand, it's Latin population is over 50%. Additionally, it has a sizeable Jewish community at 19% of the population. While Spanish is the first language of the majority of residents, native tongues also spoken include German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, among others.
If diversity is defined as a deviation from norms on a variety of standard and non standard measurements, then Miami Beach is probably an 8 or a 9. If diversity is defined only racially, then it's probably a 2 or 3.
Off the top of my head, the deviations that make Miami Beach diverse are as follows:
  • More Latin than the norm
    More International (foreign born) than the norm
    More Jewish than the norm
    More gay than the norm
    Less American born than the norm
    Less married than the norm
On the other hand, the argument against its diversity is as follows:
  • Less African American than the norm
    Less Asian than the norm
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Old 01-11-2010, 12:00 PM
 
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Well I think my city is pretty diverse I would give it a solid 9.

My city is located in the east bay in the Bay Area and we have about 75,000 residents.Over 60 different languages are spoken within city limits. The breakdown looks like this

43 % Asian (18 % of that is filipino, 9% indian)
20 % white
6.7% African American
1.3% Native American
0.9% Pacific Islander
11.5% Other races
6.7% Two or more races
24% Latino
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Old 01-11-2010, 12:16 PM
 
Location: Southern Minnesota
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On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say my city's about a 3. Not very diverse, but not all-white either. Generally middle class.

As of the 2000 census:
82.19% White
12.36% African American
0.66% Native American
0.52% Asian
0.08% Pacific Islander
1.26% from other races
2.93% from two or more races
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.97% of the population.
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Old 01-11-2010, 05:25 PM
 
Location: St Paul, MN - NJ's Gold Coast
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~9/10~

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Old 01-11-2010, 07:32 PM
 
Location: New York
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City - 9/10
County - 10/10
Neighborhood - 1/10 (looked similar to a pac-man on the CD pie-chart)
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Old 01-11-2010, 07:46 PM
 
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My neighborhood of 66,000 people:

- White 42.2%
- Black 21.1%
- Hispanic 19.9%
- Asian 12.9%
- Other 3.89%
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Old 01-12-2010, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia,New Jersey, NYC!
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i'd give the city a solid 7

Races in Philadelphia:



  • Black (43.2%)
  • White Non-Hispanic (42.5%)
  • Hispanic (8.5%)
  • Other race (4.8%)
  • Two or more races (2.2%)
  • Chinese (1.2%)
  • Other Asian (0.9%)
  • Asian Indian (0.8%)
  • Vietnamese (0.8%)
  • American Indian (0.7%)



i'd give my neighborhood a 5

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Old 01-12-2010, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Orlando - South
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The city- 8
County- 6
My Zip- 3







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