A snapshot of the the United States' cultural profile shows Sacramento made the top ten list of the most ethnically diverse large cities in the nation.
WalletHub researchers compared more than 500 of the largest U.S. cities and analyzed each city based on ethnicity and race, language and birth place. Sacramento ranked number six on the list of most diverse large cities. WalletHub categorizes large cities as having more than 300,000 people.
The Capitol City ranks number 18 on the overall list-- which includes midsize and small cities. Sacramento places high on the list for its ethnoracial and linguistic diversity. Jersey City, New Jersey tops the overall list as the most diverse city in the U.S.
In California, nearly 30 percent of the population was born in a foreign country making it the state with the highest concentration of foreign-born residents in the nation. In fact, seven of the top 10 diverse large cities ranked by WalletHub are in California.
The least ethnically diverse large city in the U.S. is Detroit.
Sacramento's diversity ranking has slipped several spots since 2016, when it placed number 10 on the overall list, according to WalletHub.
