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This website was created by Dr. John Logan and a team under his direction,
while he was Director of the Lewis Mumford Center at the University
at Albany. Dr. Logan continues this research as a faculty associate
of the Mumford Center and as Professor of Sociology at Brown University.
Further information about his activities can be found at the
website of the
American Communities Project.
These pages offer information and analyses of how the racial and ethnic
composition of metropolitan areas has shifted in the last ten years, and
how increasing diversity is experienced at the level of local neighborhoods.
For example, analysis of available 2000 data shows very slow change since
1980 in residential segregation of African Americans - in some smaller
and newer metropolitan areas, their segregation from whites has declined
markedly, but in the larger places where most African Americans lived,
segregation has remained high. Segregation of Hispanics and Asians has
not changed in the last two decades.
The menu bar on the left side of the page will help you navigate the site.
The technical
notes button provides some explanations about the census data and
segregation measures. The button for what
others are saying provides links to many of the excellent news stories
on segregation that have appeared around the country since March 2001.
You may also connect to the Mumford
Center main page, to learn about us and our other projects.
Our reports
on trends revealed by Census 2000 may be downloaded for reproduction.
The data pages offer data in several forms, including
information on every one of the nation?s 331 metro areas.
By providing complete data in a readily accessible form, we seek to facilitate
analyses of the same information from many perspectives, and to encourage
people to think about the experience of their own metropolitan region
in the context of the national picture.
If you want to view all of our data pages for a specific metropolitan
area, click
here for our
Metro and City Info page. For some kinds of data, you will be able to go
from there to see information about a specific city or school district,
or for a whole state.
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