Taking half the overall sum of the absolute differences in the proportions of two races in each neighborhood relative to the entire racial population of the city, 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,