Local cities named among most ethnically diverse in the country

Three local cities were named among the most ethnically diverse in the country.

According to a new report from WalletHub, Kent is the seventh-most ethnically diverse city — out of more than 500 — in the United States, while Federal Way and Renton ranked Nos. 12 and 16, respectively.

The personal-finance website used three key metrics: ethnoracial diversity, linguistic diversity and birthplace diversity.

Kent ranked No. 8 in ethnoracial diversity, No. 14 in linguistic diversity and No. 120 in birthplace diversity.

Jersey City, NJ, Germantown, Germantown, Md., Gaithersburg, Md., Silver Spring, Md. and Spring Valley, Nev. ranked Nos. 1-6, respectively. San Jose and Oakland followed Kent on the list.

Bellevue claimed No. 37 and Everett capped the top 100. Yakima (No. 116), Seattle (No. 128), Tacoma (No. 135) all ranked in the top 135.

Click here for the full report.

In April, Kent ranked No. 1 among the most increasingly diverse U.S. cities, according to Preply, a language-learning platform that used Census Bureau data to conduct its study.