A Stock/Flow Model of Defining Racially Integrated Neighborhoods

:This article discusses the appropriate measurement of neighborhood racial integration and proposes a new operational definition. A neighborhood is integrated if currently (1) its stock of households may be classified as "mixed" (no single group comprises more than 75% of the neighborhood's population), and (2) the flow of households into and out of this stock is such that it will be so classified for a decade in the future. The article mathematically develops stability boundaries that researchers and policy makers can use to assess the degree to which contemporaneous flows of households into and out of mixed neighborhoods will render them integrated in the future.