Mixed Metro

Welcome!

Americans live in many kinds of communities, from diverse urban neighborhoods to small towns and rural areas. The complex patterns of segregation and diversity in these communities shape the lives of the people who call them home.

This website is designed to help you explore patterns of racial composition in major US metropolitan areas and individual states. Please visit our Maps, Data, Charts, and Publications pages to view our work and download relevant data and visualizations.

The mixedmetro project is a cooperative venture that explores the racial and ethnic diversity of US metropolitan neighborhoods.

It involves researchers in the Departments of Geography at three US academic institutions: Dartmouth College, the University of Washington, and the University of Georgia. The primary individuals involved are Richard Wright and Jonathan Chipman (Dartmouth), Mark Ellis (Washington), and Steven Holloway (Georgia). Grace Alston, Laura Andreae, Murylo Batista, Minal Caron, Keara Dennehy, Yvette Garcia, Kevin Mwenda, Akikazu Onda, Madeleine Parker, Nicole Tiao, Sandy Wong (Dartmouth), Kylee Hoffman (Washington), and Michael Wellman (Georgia) made valuable contributions to the project. Grant support from the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Neukom Institute at Dartmouth College made this research possible.

To cite the MixedMetro website itself, we recommend the following:

Chipman, J.; Wright, R.; Holloway, S.; Ellis, M. (2009/2022), MixedMetro.US: Mapping Diversity and Segregation in the USA, Fourth edition. Online at mixedmetro.us.

To cite our work on MixedMetro's specific research themes, we recommend the following:

Mixed-race households

Ellis, M.; Holloway, S.; Wright, R.; Fowler, C. (2012), Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(3): 549-570. DOI:10.1080/00045608.2011.627057.

Quantifying racial segregation and diversity

Holloway, S.; Wright, R.; Ellis, M. (2012), The Racially Fragmented City? Neighborhood Racial Segregation and Diversity Jointly Considered, The Professional Geographer 64(1): 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2011.585080.

Wright, R.; Ellis, M.; Holloway, S.; Wong, S. (2014), Patterns of Racial Diversity and Segregation in the United States: 1990-2010, The Professional Geographer. 66(2): 173-182. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2012.735924.

A complete list of publications from the MixedMetro project is available on the Publications page.