Aug 29

Suburbanites Are Happiest Home Owners

Suburbanites Are Happiest Home Owners

Suburbanites Are Happiest Home Owners. Image courtesy of imagerymajestic / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Suburbanites Are Happiest Home Owners. Image courtesy of imagerymajestic / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

City centers and down towns may be growing in demand among millennials and retiring baby boomers, but a new poll says residents are still happiest in the suburbs.

Americans who live in suburban areas are the most satisfied with the place they live, according to the Atlantic Media/Siemens State of City Poll. Eighty-four percent of suburbanites rated their community as “excellent” or “good” compared to 75 percent of urban dwellers and 78 percent of rural residents, according to the poll of more than 1,600 U.S. adults.

The survey revealed some racial, economic, and generational differences in community satisfaction. For example, in urban areas, whites were significantly more likely than minorities to say they were happy with their communities as places to live. Also, younger adults in general were less likely to rate their communities as “excellent” or “good” compared to their older counterparts. Older respondents tended to hold more favorable views of the place where they live.

Home ownership also appeared to be a major predictor for how satisfied residents were with their community. In urban areas, 44 percent of home owners rated their community as “excellent” compared to 22 percent of urban renters. Among non-urban home owners, 46 percent rated their community as “excellent” compared to 31 percent of non-urban renters, the poll found.

“These findings are striking to the extent that they appear to reinforce decades-old notions of how American society is organized: an overall preference for the suburbs; a concentration of less educated, less satisfied minorities in urban areas; the classic American dream of home ownership associated so strongly with perceptions of high-quality communities,” reports The Atlantic CityLab about the survey results.

Source: “Overall, Americans in the Suburbs Are Still the Happiest,” The Atlantic CityLab (Aug. 25, 2014)

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