Houston's Third Ward is primarily home to African-American residents. Image via flickr/telwink. Houston's Third Ward is primarily home to African-American residents. Image via flickr/telwink.

White people in Harris County are more likely to live in Hispanic neighborhoods in large numbers than in black neighborhoods, according to a new report from Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research that sheds light on the shifting racial composition of Houston-area communities.

"The Shifting City: Houston's History of Unequal Racial Change," by Kinder Institute postdoctoral fellow Heather O'Connell, offers a twist on the traditional analyses we often see of neighborhoods. We've all seen maps that show which race or ethnicity is the largest group in each census tract across a city.

But O'Connell took that analysis a step further, examining which is the second-most populous group in each tract too.

The map below shows Harris County's breakdown, based on 2010 Census figures. Click for a larger version.

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