This Miami-Dade city is ranked as one of the least diverse. How could that be?

Hialeah “homogeneous?” Yes, according to a WalletHub comparison of 501 U.S. cities.

Hialeah’s very different than the average U.S. city. Yet, there’s enough sameness within its borders that it ranked as the fourth least diverse city when WalletHub used U.S Census American Community Survey to rank municipalities.

Hialeah is downright exotic compared to the three less diverse cities. There are two West Virginia cities, Parkersburg and Clarksburg, Watertown, South Dakota. The city that’s right behind Hialeah in everyone being alike — Rutland, Vermont — can claim to be the whitest city, 95.45 percent.

Hialeah has the highest concentration of Hispanics (95.64 percent), Spanish speakers as a first language (92.25 percent), foreign-born residents (72.75 percent) and the lowest concentration of white non-Hispanics (3.39 percent), ethnicities other than Hispanic, white, black or Asian (0.13 percent), people born in the U.S. South (0.79 percent) and English speakers as a first language (7.22 percent).

The list uses numbers that don’t break down ethnicity beyond broad chunks. So the survey fails to reflect the various ethnic flavors of Miami-Dade County.

Which is why Florida’s two most diverse cities on this list are Orlando (No. 21 nationally) and Tampa (No. 60). Miami was 175th.

This story was originally published February 22, 2017 at 11:51 AM with the headline "This Miami-Dade city is ranked as one of the least diverse. How could that be?."