Taking half the overall sum of the absolute differences in the proportions of two races in each neighborhood relative to the city's entire racial population, the Index of Dissimilarity generates a numerical value including between 0 and 1 which can be used to interpret the level of segregation present in a city. A dissimilarity index less than 0.3 reveals that there is low segregation between the two races compared in the city, while values ​​between 0.3 and 0.6 and above 0.6 represent moderate and high segregation,