Racism by the numbers

40 Statistics Showing Systemic Racism in the US

This information was compiled by Dan Price. The original source is here: https://mobile.twitter.com/danpriceseattle/status/1349556816745816064

Compared to white people:

  1. Black-owned homes devalued 23%
    Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/realestate/blacks-minorities-appraisals-discrimination.html
  2. Black-owned property taxes 13% higher
    Source: https://washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/02/black-property-tax/
  3. Bank fees 2x higher for black customers
    Source: https://cnbc.com/2021/01/13/black-and-hispanics-paying-twice-amount-banking-fees-than-whites-survey.html

 

  1. Black-owned biz closed at twice the rate in pandemic
    Source: https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-08/black-business-owners-suffer-41-drop-in-covid-19-lockdowns
  1. Black people w/ NO criminal record earn $10k less than white people w/ criminal record
    Source: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/conviction-imprisonment-and-lost-earnings-how-involvement-criminal
  1. Black college grads have 50% less wealth than white high school dropouts
    Source: https://newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-pandemic-has-intensified-systemic-economic-racism-against-black-americans
  1. Top 10 most-audited counties are 79% people of color
    Source: https://theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/18/tax-audit-earned-income-tax-credit-mississippi
  1. Black-white homeowner gap is bigger now than 120 years ago
    Source: https://marketwatch.com/story/the-racial-wealth-gap-is-at-the-heart-of-americas-inequality-2020-07-15
  1. Electoral college gives white people 16% more voting power than Black people
    Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/02/when-voting-doesnt-work-inequity-follows/
  1. All Black Americans combined have half the wealth of richest 400 ppl
    Source: https://brookings.edu/research/closing-the-racial-wealth-gap-requires-heavy-progressive-taxation-of-wealth/
  1. White ppl get inheritance at 3x the rate of Black ppl
    Source: https://federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/disparities-in-wealth-by-race-and-ethnicity-in-the-2019-survey-of-consumer-finances-20200928.htm
  1. Black college grads have $25k more in student debt than white grads
    Source: https://sites.ed.gov/whieeaa/files/2016/11/Black-College-Graduates-and-the-Student-Debt-Gap.pdf
  1. Black families have $166k less wealth than white families, more than pre-Civil Rights
    Source: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/12/08/the-black-white-wealth-gap-left-black-households-more-vulnerable/
  1. Black-owned businesses get 3% of all biz loans
    Source: https://bizjournals.com/portland/news/2020/10/15/unequal-access-how-the-us-financial-system-is.html?ana=e_tno&b=1602790745%5E21787983
  1. Black unemployed workers get unemployment benefits at half the rate of white workers
    Source: https://usatoday.com/story/money/2020/10/22/stimulus-check-black-unemployment-rate-racial-disparity-coronavirus-trump-biden/3650844001/
  1. Black people own 1% of all stocks
    Source: https://politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/10/05/how-washingtons-embrace-of-the-stock-market-is-fueling-an-unequal-recovery-1321449
  1. Net worth of older Millennials with a college degree: 10x higher for white grads than Black grads
    Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/student-debt-is-fueling-the-black-white-wealth-gap-and-pursuing-a-college-degree-has-become-racialized-this-professor-says-11599861959
  1. Since the Civil War/slavery ended, Black families have gone from holding 0.5% of all wealth to 1.5%
    Source: https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/heres-the-single-best-way-to-help-black-people-according-to-ryan-wilson/
  1. Black ppl are 4x more likely than white ppl to be arrested for marijuana
    Source: https://norml.org/marijuana/fact-sheets/racial-disparity-in-marijuana-arrests/
  1. Where it’s legal, black people own 4% of cannabis businesses
    Source: https://mjbizdaily.com/chart-19-cannabis-businesses-owned-founded-racial-minorities/
  1. 0% of Fortune 500 CEOs are black women
    Source: https://cnbc.com/2020/08/03/cloroxs-new-ceo-will-increase-the-number-of-fortune-500-women-to-38.html
  1. Scooter startup Bird got more funding than all Black women startups combined last year
    Source: https://fastcompany.com/90531094/for-black-entrepreneurs-the-racial-wealth-gap-makes-finding-funding-nearly-impossible
  1. Black sons of ppl in the richest 1% are arrested at same rate as white sons of ppl in poorest third
    Source: https://economist.com/briefing/2020/07/09/segregation-still-blights-the-lives-of-african-americans
  1. 20 years after college, white students have 5% of loan left vs 95% left for Black students
    Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/student-debt-crisis-creates-vicious-cycle-inequality-black-latino-neighborhoods-n1232388
  1. Black students are 2.5x likelier than white students to be arrested at school after controlling for poverty
    Source: https://theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/25/police-schools-oakland-chicago-los-angeles
  1. 1950: black men made 51 cents for every $1 white men made. Now: 51 cents
    Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/sunday/race-wage-gap.html
  1. Corporate stock buybacks/dividends in last 15 years benefited white ppl 72x more than Black ppl
    Source: https://yahoo.com/?err=404&err_url=https%3a%2f%2ffinance.yahoo.com%2fnews%2fstock-market-feeds-racial-inequality-110000230.html
  1. Americans think Black people have 90% of the wealth white people do. It’s actually 10%
    Source: https://vox.com/2020/6/19/21295607/juneteenth-protest-wealth-gap-race-america-what-it-owes-black-citizens
  1. Black homeowners are still 5x more likely to be in old redlined areas, 50 years after redlining was outlawed
    Source: https://redfin.com/news/redlining-real-estate-racial-wealth-gap/
  1. Facial recognition is 100x more likely to misidentify black faces than white ones
    Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal-study-confirms-racial-bias-many-facial-recognition-systems-casts-doubt-their-expanding-use/
  1. 37% Black families have $0 net worth, 2x rate of white families
    Source: https://washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/04/protecting-property-is-an-abstraction-growing-share-americans-who-own-nothing/
  1. Under the post-WWII GI bill, 0.1% of homes went to Black vets
    Source: https://history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits
  1. Black Americans are 3x likelier than white ppl to be killed by police
    Source: https://weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/us-race-economy-education-inequality/
  1. In 8 cities the rate of police killing Black men is higher than U.S. murder rate
    Source: https://www.vox.com/2020/5/31/21276004/anger-police-killing-george-floyd-protests
  1. Black-owned small biz were 3x less likely than white-owned biz to get PPP bailout
    Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/business/minority-businesses-coronavirus-loans.html
  1. Covid death rate is 2x higher for Black ppl than white ppl
    Source: https://apnews.com/article/71d952faad4a2a5d14441534f7230c7c
  1. Historically-Black Howard U. grads pay $3,500 more for loans than similar NYU grads
    Source: https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/loan-rates-seen-higher-for-students-at-less-prestigious-schools
  1. Min wage workers 2x likelier to be Black than white
    Source: https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/loan-rates-seen-higher-for-students-at-less-prestigious-schools
  1. Black grads are 5x more likely than white grads to be in default on student loans
    Source: https://npr.org/2019/12/09/785527874/student-loans-a-lot-like-the-subprime-mortgage-debacle-watchdog-says
  1. Black voters are 74% likelier than white voters to wait at least 30 minutes at the polls
    Source: https://www.nber.org/papers/w26487