1 / 9 9. Kansas City, MO-KS

<span><strong>> Pct. of population living in segregated areas:</strong> 37.8%<br> <strong>> Black poverty rate:</strong> 26.4%<br> <strong>> White poverty rate:</strong> 8.3%<br> <strong>> Black unemployment rate:</strong> 13.4%<br> <strong>> White unemployment rate:</strong> 5.6%</span> <span>Roughly 765,000 Kansas City residents — or 37.8% of the city’s population — live in a homogeneous zip code, or where at least 80% of residents share the same skin color or ethnicity, the ninth </span>highest proportion in the country. Out of the 166 zip codes that make up the Kansas City metro area, 123 are <a href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/08/19/americas-most-segregated-cities/2/"><span>home</span></a> to predominantly white residents. White city residents have very little interaction with the city’s black residents. Of all the people a white person comes into contact with in the area, only 5.5% are black, significantly less frequent than the similar figure of 12.8% of contacts across the 50 largest metro areas. <span>Segregation like this can have very discernible consequences. White households earn nearly twice the median income of black households. Three of the area’s zip codes are home to 15.9% of the metro’s black population, and the <a href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/08/19/americas-most-segregated-cities/2/"><span>median household income</span></a> in each is less than $30,000 annually. More than 26% of the metro area’s black population lives in poverty, slightly less than the national poverty rate among black Americans but more than three times as high as the poverty rate among the city’s white residents of 8.3%. School systems are also affected by segregation. While one-third of all metro area residents have at least a bachelor’s degree, in zip codes that are home to predominantly black residents, less than 12% of adults have a college degree.</span> <a href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/08/19/americas-most-segregated-cities/">Read more at 24/7 Wall St.</a>

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