2017’s Most Diverse Cities in America – WalletHub Study

With immigration policy being the most impacted issue during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2017’s Most Diverse Cities in America. 

To determine the most kaleidoscopic places in the U.S., WalletHub’s analysts compared the demographic profiles of more than 500 of the largest cities across five major diversity categories: socioeconomic, cultural, economic, household and religious.
 

	Most Diverse Cities in America			Least Diverse Cities in America
	1	New York, NY		492	Sanford, ME
	2	Jersey City, NJ		493	Parkersburg, WV
	3	Houston, TX		494	Lewiston, ID
	4	Dallas, TX		495	Kalispell, MT
	5	Silver Spring, MD		496	Keene, NH
	6	Aurora, IL		497	Rochester, NH
	7	Gaithersburg, MD		498	Morgantown, WV
	8	Los Angeles, CA		499	Orem, UT
	9	Germantown, MD		500	Provo, UT
	10	Long Beach, CA		501	Bangor, ME

 
Key Stats

• College, Alaska, has the highest income diversity, which is 2.7 times higher than in Youngstown, Ohio, the city with the lowest.
   
• Oakland, Calif., has the highest racial and ethnic diversity, which is 3.9 times higher than in Hialeah, Fla., the city with the lowest.
   
• Central Falls, R.I., has the highest household-type diversity, which is two times higher than in Johns Creek, Ga., the city with the lowest.
   
• Waipahu, Hawaii, has the highest household-size diversity, which is 2.2 times higher than in Hilton Head Island, S.C., the city with the lowest.
   
• Thornton, Colo., has the highest industry diversity, which is 2.7 times higher than in Ann Arbor, Mich., the city with the lowest.
   
• Yakima, Wash., has the highest occupational diversity, which is 2.7 times higher than in Cambridge, Mass., the city with the lowest.

To view the full report and your city’s rank, please visit: 
https://wallethub.com/edu/most-diverse-cities/12690/

source: WalletHub