Your City’s Segregation Visualized [Maps]

In many ways, that’s probably the most accurate map of Washington, DC I’ve seen: those colors represent the demographic breakdown of a divided city. Here’s how the biggest metropolitan areas within the US safeguard an identical treatment.

Eric Fischer has created and compiled similar maps for the 40 largest cities within the US, based on 2000 US Census data. One dot equals 25 people, and each dot is color-coded by race; white is pink, black is blue, Hispanic is orange, and Asian is green. See in the event you can spot the town without checking the title:

Fischer was inspired by Bill Rankin’s map of Chicago that followed an identical basic rubric. It’s an engaging option to analyze a cities, a reminder that in some areas we’re still more bento box than melting pot. I’d be even more interested to determine how places have evolved over the decades. [ Eric Fischer via Data Pointed ]

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