With immigration reform remaining a hot-button issue in 2025, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2025’s Most & Least Ethnically Diverse Cities, as well as expert commentary.
To identify the most ethnically diverse places in America, WalletHub compared more than 500 of the largest U.S. cities across three key metrics: ethno-racial diversity, linguistic diversity and birthplace diversity.
| Most Ethnically Diverse Cities | Least Ethnically Diverse Cities | |
| 1. Germantown, MD | 492. Mitchell, SD | |
| 2. Jersey City, NJ | 493. Laredo, TX | |
| 3. Gaithersburg, MD | 494. Butte-Silver Bow, MT | |
| 4. Silver Spring, MD | 495. Anaconda-Deer Lodge, MT | |
| 5. Kent, WA | 496. Watertown, SD | |
| 6. New York, NY | 477. Rutland, VT | |
| 7. Spring Valley, NV | 498. Barre, VT | |
| 8. Federal Way, WA | 499. Clarksburg, WV | |
| 9. Rockville, MD | 500. Hialeah, FL | |
| 10. Oakland, CA | 501. Parkersburg, WV | |
Key Stats
- Germantown, Maryland, has the highest racial and ethnic diversity, which is four times higher than in Hialeah, Florida, the city with the lowest.
- Hialeah, Florida, has the highest concentration of Hispanic or Latino people, at 95.24 percent.
- Rutland, Vermont, has the highest concentration of white people, at 93.81 percent.
- Greenville, Mississippi, has the highest concentration of black people, at 81.75 percent.
