Report Highlights: 

• Non-Hispanic blacks remain the lowest-income minority group, with household incomes only 63.7% as high as non-Hispanic whites.? Blacks had higher percentage growth in income than did whites in the 1990-2000 decade, but their disadvantage increased by more than $400 in absolute terms (2000 dollars).? Hispanics and Asians declined relative to whites in both percentage and absolute terms.?But while Hispanics?household income was lower than whites? Asians had an income advantage.

• Blacks also have the greatest neighborhood gap, declining slightly as a proportion but increasing by about $1000 in real terms.?On average blacks lived in neighborhoods with median incomes only about 70% as high as whites.?High black-white segregation in the Northeast and Midwest accentuates neighborhood inequalities in these regions compared to the South and West.?The neighborhood gap was smaller for Hispanics than for blacks, but it grew during the last decade, especially in the Northeast and West.?Asians enjoyed a neighborhood advantage over whites, except in the Northeast.

• The neighborhood gap is almost as high for economically successful group members.?Disparities between neighborhoods for blacks and Hispanics with incomes above $60,000 are almost as large as the overall disparities, and they increased more substantially in the last decade.