Rural residents more likely than their urban or suburban counterparts to know their neighbors

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6. How urban, suburban and rural residents interact with their neighbors

Rural residents more likely than their urban or suburban counterparts to know their neighbors

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6. How urban, suburban and rural residents interact with their neighbors
Older adults are most likely to know their neighbors
About half of Americans who know at least some of their neighbors talk to them weekly
Little difference in the extent to which Americans interact with their neighbors across community types
Urban residents less likely to have any neighbors they would trust with a set of keys
Wide racial divide across community types in trusting neighbors with a set of keys
Relatively few Americans say most of their neighbors hold their political views
Whites overall are most likely to say their neighbors share their race/ethnicity, but not in urban areas
Upper-class suburban residents feel their neighbors are mostly their same social class
Democrats in urban areas and Republicans in rural areas most likely to feel their neighbors share their political views
Education level is connected to perceptions of neighbors’ politics in urban communities
People who have characteristics in common with their neighbors interact with them more often

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