STUDY FINDS DISPARITY IN LOVE OF CITY//NEIGHBORHOOD AFFECTS HOW RESIDENTS RATE LIFE
Published on 02/27/2002
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Section: Local
Page: B3
Byline: BY JUDITH YATES BORGER, Pioneer
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MINNEAPOLIS - Whether Minneapolis residents love where they live depends greatly on which neighborhood they call home, a citywide survey released Tuesday shows.
While 73 percent of residents in Southwest Minneapolis said their neighborhood was a very good place to live, only 8 percent of the Phillips neighborhood, and 14 percent in the Near North felt the same way.
Overall, however, 42 percent of residents rated life in Minneapolis very good.
How happy they were with their own neighborhood, however, didn't much affect whether they plan to stay.
Three-quarters of all city residents figure they will be in the same place in five years. In the Phillips neighborhood, that number was 67 percent, and 64 percent in the Near North area. In the Southwest neighborhood, 74 percent plan to stick around until 2006.
The margin of error is 10 percent when broken down by neighborhood.
The $58,000 survey by MarketLine Research quizzed 1,210 residents between Nov. 11 and Jan. 4. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percent for community-wide responses.
About 85 percent of those interviewed think downtown Minneapolis is clean, while 74 percent think it's safe. But there were significant differences across age, race and gender lines.
Younger people feel safer downtown than older people, men more than women, whites more than blacks. Those who reported they had been discriminated against felt half as safe downtown as those who had not felt discrimination.
Residents in all 11 geographic areas were deeply concerned about the city's lack of affordable housing but were generally satisfied with the city's services in the areas of fire and emergency help, animal control and garbage collection.
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