US Counties With the Lowest Black-white Residential Segregation
2,064 US counties ranked by black-white residential segregation, from lowest to highest. First are St. Helena Parish, LA (1.44), Surry County, VA (1.93) and Clinch County, GA (2). The middle one of the 2,064 has 50.5.
What this measures
How unevenly Black and white residents are spread across the county's neighborhoods, from 0 (evenly mixed) to 100 (completely separate). It is the share of either group who would have to move for the two groups to be spread the same way. It is only calculated where both groups live in large enough numbers. Source: County Health Rankings.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | index, 0 to 100 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delaware | 44.8 |
| 2 | South Carolina | 48.2 |
| 3 | Nevada | 50.7 |
| 4 | Mississippi | 51.1 |
| 5 | Virginia | 51.2 |
| 6 | Arizona | 51.2 |
| 7 | North Carolina | 52.6 |
| 8 | Texas | 55.2 |
| 9 | New Mexico | 55.4 |
| 10 | Louisiana | 55.9 |
| 11 | Georgia | 55.9 |
| 12 | Oklahoma | 56.1 |
| 13 | North Dakota | 56.6 |
| 14 | Alaska | 57.2 |
| 15 | Florida | 57.5 |
| 16 | Alabama | 57.7 |
| 17 | Kansas | 58.7 |
| 18 | California | 59.2 |
| 19 | Washington | 59.8 |
| 20 | West Virginia | 61.3 |
| 21 | Connecticut | 61.6 |
| 22 | Hawaii | 61.6 |
| 23 | Vermont | 62 |
| 24 | Rhode Island | 62.1 |
| 25 | Minnesota | 62.4 |
| 26 | Kentucky | 62.5 |
| 27 | Iowa | 62.8 |
| 28 | Massachusetts | 62.9 |
| 29 | Maryland | 63 |
| 30 | Nebraska | 64.5 |
| 31 | Oregon | 64.5 |
| 32 | New Jersey | 65 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 65.4 |
| 34 | Colorado | 66.1 |
| 35 | South Dakota | 66.5 |
| 36 | District of Columbia | 66.6 |
| 37 | Tennessee | 67 |
| 38 | Indiana | 68.2 |
| 39 | Ohio | 69.6 |
| 40 | New Hampshire | 69.9 |
| 41 | Utah | 70.4 |
| 42 | Wyoming | 70.5 |
| 43 | Missouri | 70.6 |
| 44 | Illinois | 71.4 |
| 45 | Pennsylvania | 72 |
| 46 | Michigan | 73.2 |
| 47 | Maine | 74.9 |
| 48 | New York | 75.1 |
| 49 | Wisconsin | 76.7 |
| 50 | Idaho | 77 |
| 51 | Montana | 80.4 |
More on black-white residential segregation
- US Counties With the Highest Black-white Residential Segregation
- Black-white residential segregation by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.