Americans Are Less Likely Than Before COVID-19 To Want To Live in Cities, More Likely To Prefer Suburbs
About half of Americans say availability of affordable housing is a major problem in their area
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- Americans Are Less Likely Than Before COVID-19 To Want To Live in Cities, More Likely To Prefer Suburbs
- Preference for cities has declined, while a growing share now favors suburbs
- Nearly half of Americans say the pandemic has divided their community
- Views of the pandemic’s economic and health impacts on local communities differ by race and ethnicity
- Ongoing impact of the pandemic felt more acutely in urban areas
- About one-in-five Americans say life in their community will never return to how it was before the pandemic
- Lower-income adults more likely to say it will take longer for their local economy to recover
- Public says pandemic divided the country but not necessarily their community
- For many Americans, there’s a mix of views in their community on key approaches for mitigating COVID-19
- Views on how fellow community members feel about mask wearing differ by community type and party
- Most Republicans say there’s a mix of views on COVID-19 vaccines where they live
- In communities with fewer recent COVID-19 deaths, support for vaccines and masks is more widespread
- About four-in-ten Americans give the federal government poor or very poor ratings for its COVID-19 response
- About half of Americans say availability of affordable housing is a major problem in their area
- Lower-income adults more likely than those with higher incomes to see major problems in their community
- A growing share of urban dwellers say they would move if they could
- The share of Americans who would prefer to live in a city has dropped, while a growing share prefers the suburbs
- Community type preferences vary by race and ethnicity, age and partisanship
- For the most part, what Americans are looking for in a community has not changed since 2018
- About three-in-ten Americans live within an hour’s drive of all or most of their extended family
- American Trends Panel recruitment surveys
- Invitation and reminder dates
- Weighting dimensions
- Final dispositions
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