Metropolitan Futures Initiative Quarterly Report: Inequality and segregation in Southern California

Metropolitan Futures Initiative (MFI) Quarterly Report: Inequality and segregation in Southern California August 1, 2020

Presented by the Metropolitan Futures Initiative (MFI) School of Social Ecology University of California, Irvine ÂŠ August 2020

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Metropolitan Futures Initiative Quarterly Report: Inequality and segregation in Southern California

Published on Aug 1, 2020

University of California, Irvine - School of Social Ecology

• This Report studies the demographic and economic change that has occurred in six counties in Southern California since 1970. • All Southern California counties have more racial/ethnic mixing at the county level than average U.S. large counties • San Bernardino County has experienced the biggest increase in Latinos since 1990 and now has the highest percentage of Latinos • Orange County has gone from the least racial/ethnic mixing in 1970 to the most by 2018. • Despite the high levels of racial/ethnic mixing, the degree to which different groups live in the same neighborhoods varies across counties. Los Angeles County has the highest level of racial segregation across neighborhoods, whereas the Inland Empire counties have the least. • Los Angeles County has the highest level of income inequality. • Ventura County has the lowest level of income inequality. • After rising in earlier years, income inequality in Orange County has held relatively steady since 2000. • Income segregation is higher in Southern Calif

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