A STOCK FLOW MODEL OF DEFINING RACIALLY INTEGRATED NEIGHBORHOODS/

This article discusses the appropriate measurement of neighborhood rac ial integration and proposes a new operational definition. A neighborh ood is integrated if currently (Ij its stock of households may be clas sified as ''mixed'' (no single group comprises more than 75% of the ne ighborhood's population), and (2) the flow of households into and out of this stock is such that it will be so classified for a decade in th e future. The article mathematically develops stability boundaries tha t researchers and policy makers can use to assess the degree to which contemporaneous flows of households into and out of mixed neighborhood s will render them integrated in the future.