WORCESTER – In response to President Joe Biden’s executive orders expanding immigration opportunities and his appointments of a diverse group of people to cabinet positions, the data and finance experts at WalletHub have released their report on 2021’s Most & Least Ethnically Diverse Cities.
WalletHub compared more than 500 of the largest U.S. cities across three key metrics: ethnoracial diversity, linguistic diversity and birthplace diversity.
Among the 501 cities examined, the City of Worcester ranked in the Top 75 (#73 overall) and #31 among mid-sized cities.
Worcester fared well in linguistic diversity (#56 overall) and ethnoracial diversity (#108). Worcester ranked in the lower half of the cities (#262) for birthplace diversity. All three metrics were weighed using a 100 point scale.
