America's Most Economically Segregated Cities

The geographical sorting of Americans by income, education and socio-economic class is growing. A 2012 report by the Pew Research Center [PDF] found that the segregation of upper- and lower-income households had risen in 27 of the country's 30 largest metros. Inequality is increasingly baked into the economic geography of the United States.

A year ago I authored a five-part series on the geography of economic segregation for this site. Now, in a new study released today by the Martin Prosperity Institute, my colleague Charlotta Mellander and I take another deep dive into the geography of economic segregation across U.S. metro areas to create a new kind of index of inequality.