New York Community

Community Issues in New York

Introduction

Crime is cited most frequently among downstate urban respondents (22%), whereas 9% identify land development and 8.5% identify education as the top issue. While 8% of downstate urbanites identify housing as the most important issue in their communities, their upstate counterparts barely mention it. Upstate urban respondents are likely to identify employment (12%), crime (9%), economic growth (9%), and local C government (7%) as the most important issue for their communities. Rural New Yorkers are more like their upstate urban counterparts in the way that they describe their community (their village/town/ city), and they identify ...