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February 13th, 2018 by WCBC Radio

With immigration reform remaining one of the most prominent political issues, suggesting that the U.S. demographic landscape may soon change, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2018’s Most & Least Ethnically Diverse Cities.

To identify the most ethnically diverse places in America, WalletHub compared more than 500 of the largest U.S. cities across three key metrics, including ethnoracial diversity, linguistic diversity and birthplace diversity.
 

Most Ethnically Diverse Cities			Least Ethnically Diverse Cities
1	Jersey City, NJ		492	Rutland, VT
2	Gaithersburg, MD		493	Fairmont, WV
3	Germantown, MD		494	Bennington, VT
4	Silver Spring, MD		495	Laconia, NH
5	Spring Valley, NV		496	Miles City, MT
6	New York, NY		497	Barre, VT
7	Oakland, CA		498	Watertown, SD
8	San Jose, CA		499	Hialeah, FL
9	Rockville, MD		500	Clarksburg, WV
10	Kent, WA		501	Parkersburg, WV

 
Key Stats

• Oakland, California, has the highest racial and ethnic diversity, which is four times higher than in Hialeah, Florida, the city with the lowest.
   
• Hialeah, Florida has the highest concentration of Hispanics or Latinos, at 96.26 percent.
   
• Laconia, New Hampshire has the highest concentration of whites, at 95.55 percent.
   
• Jackson, Mississippi has the highest concentration of blacks, at 80.84 percent.

To view the full report and your city’s rank, please visit: 
https://wallethub.com/edu/cities-with-the-most-and-least-ethno-racial-and-linguistic-diversity/10264/