A recent interactive report card has just been released by the Urban Institute assessing racial and ethnic equity in the nation’s top 100 metropolitan areas. The report card can be found here, along with commentary by Margery Turner.
Metropoles that made the top ten for black-white equity were:
1. Albuquerque, NM
2. El Paso, TX
3. Lakeland–Winter Haven, FL
4. Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, FL
5. Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura, CA
6. Santa Rosa–Petaluma, CA
7. Tucson, AZ
8. Modesto, CA
9. Honolulu, HI
10. Greenville–Mauldin–Easley, SC
Top ten for Latino-white equity were:
1. Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, FL
2. Pittsburgh, PA
3. Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, ME
4. Jacksonville, FL
5. Dayton, OH
6. St. Louis, MO–IL
7. McAllen–Edinburg–Mission, TX
8. Lakeland–Winter Haven, FL
9. El Paso, TX
10. Akron, OH
