Fig. 6: Changes in factors over time.
From: US cities are defined by rings and pockets with limited socioeconomic mixing
a, Trends for classes of segregation showing that segregation peaked in April of 2020, but shows little change today. b, We compute city averages for I and S and see that levels changed in many cities during the pandemic but have returned to normal in most—notably not San Francisco. c, Changes to dependencies over years, following the same logic as above with distance to the CBD on the vertical axis and variables of interest on the horizontal axes (nonwhite population and income): relative to the 2019, lower values for nonwhite population and median income generate high expected segregation near the center; more distance bands generate high expected isolated even at higher values for nonwhite population and lower values for median income. Dashed boxes show that central areas have higher expected segregation at all income levels and peripheral areas have higher expected isolation at all nonwhite levels.
