ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a few ways in which diversity is typically measured. It assesses patterns of diversity in Cook County and the City of Chicago in 2000 and 2010. Social diversity is geographically patterned. It is important to note at the outset that when people talk about "diversity", they sometimes mean "ethnic" or "minority", as if to say that if one is studying a predominantly African-American or Hispanic neighborhood, one is therefore studying "diversity". The chapter also provides the combined distribution of the most diverse tracts in the City of Chicago for two of the most important social variables: race/ethnicity and income – measured as tracts that are in the top 20% of income and the top 20% of racial/ethnic diversity. Social segregation is measured by socioeconomic status, stage in the life cycle, or race and ethnicity, although most information the authors have about segregation is devoted to racial segregation.
