Census 2010: Metro Areas Above 2 Million; Portland's Ranks 25th out of 30 On Racial/Ethnic Diversity Index.

Metro area population data has now been released for Census 2010. 

As another Fair Housing Month project, I constructed the legal sized table HERE that shows my calculation of the diversity index and rankings of the 30 Metro areas with population above 2 million. [ A racial and ethnic diversity index represents the probability that two people chosen at random in a geographic area would be of a different race or ethnicity (on a 0-100 scale)].

Within metro areas with more than 2 million population the Portland metro ranked 25th out of 30th.  

St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Juan, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh metro areas had lower Census 2010 Diversity Index scores than the Portland metro area. 

Tables also include minority/Hispanic %'s and housing unit counts and vacancy rates for these 30 metro areas.  (I didn't show this ranking but the Portland metro vacancy rate was the 3rd lowest in these 30 large metro areas, trailing only Los Angeles, and Minneapolis).

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.