Abstract
In social geography, a number of studies have delineated the residential patterns of individual ethnic groups using the concept of concentration and segregation. Ironically, none of those studies have demonstrated the degree to which a given group lives with other groups in part of a city. This study investigates the degree of areal correspondence between the residential patterns of Japanese in San Francisco and six other ethnic groups: White, Latin, Black, Chinese, Filipino and American Indian. Analysis of 1970 census data, utilizing Spearman's rank order correlation, reveals three major patterns in ethnic residential areal correspondence and it also reveals the fact that only the Japanese group shows a positive correspondence, at a statistically significant level, with the White category among all other groups.
