DemographicsJan 14, 2024

Mapping Racial Diversity by State

What we’re showing

The Census Bureau’s 2020 Diversity Index ranking for each state. The index measures the probability (as a %) that two people chosen at random will be from different race and ethnicity groups.

See the Dataset tab for the actual values.

Context

Index values are bounded between 0 and 1, where a 0 value indicates that everyone in the population has the same racial and ethnic characteristics. A value of 1 indicates that everyone in the population has different characteristics.

Dataset

Rank	State	Diversity Index (%)
1	Hawaii	76.0
2	California	69.7
3	Nevada	68.8
4	Maryland	67.3
5	DC	67.2
6	Texas	67.0
7	New Jersey	65.8
8	New York	65.8
9	Georgia	64.1
10	Florida	64.1
11	New Mexico	63
12	Alaska	62.8
13	Arizona	61.5
14	Virginia	60.5
15	Illinois	60.3
16	Delaware	59.6
17	Oklahoma	59.5
18	Louisiana	58.6
19	North Carolina	57.9
20	Washington	55.9
21	Mississippi	55.9
22	Connecticut	55.7
23	South Carolina	54.6
24	Alabama	53.1
25	Colorado	52.3
26	Massachusetts	51.6
27	Arkansas	49.8
28	Rhode Island	49.4
29	Tennessee	46.6
30	Oregon	46.1
31	Kansas	45.4
32	Michigan	45.2
33	Pennsylvania	44
34	Indiana	41.3
35	Nebraska	40.8
36	Missouri	40.8
37	Utah	40.7
38	Minnesota	40.5
39	Ohio	40.4
40	Wisconsin	37
41	Idaho	35.9
42	South Dakota	35.6
43	Kentucky	32.8
44	North Dakota	32.6
45	Wyoming	32.4
46	Iowa	30.8
47	Montana	30.1
48	New Hampshire	23.6
49	Vermont	20.2
50	West Virginia	20.2
51	Maine	18.5

Data sources

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/racial-and-ethnic-diversity-in-the-united-states-2010-and-2020-census.html

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