Confidence in City Government |
Approximately three out of four residents (78.5%) have confidence in Carlsbad city government to make decisions which positively affect the lives of its community members. Of those, 23.1 percent indicated they were “Very confident” and 55.4 percent were “Somewhat confident.” Eighteen percent indicated that they were unconfident (“Very unconfident”: 5.4%, “Somewhat unconfident”: 12.7%) and 3.4 percent did not know or declined to state.
Figure 13 - Confidence in City Governnment to Make Decisions
- Residents who were dissatisfied with the job the City is doing to provide services, those who viewed the quality of life as “Getting worse,” those who felt less than “Very safe” walking alone in their neighborhood (during the day or night), those that provided a negative rating for the job the City does to balance land use, those dissatisfied with city-resident communication, and those who provided a negative rating for the job the City does to provide important information were more likely to report negative ratings than their sub-group counterparts.
- Confidence in city government was highest among residents who have lived in the City less than five years (81.4%) and lowest among those who have lived in Carlsbad between 10 and 14 years (72.0%).
- Confidence was highest among residents in the 18 to 34 and 65 year and older age groups and comparatively lower among residents 35 to 64 years of age.
- Residents with a “High” sense of community (derived across seven variables) were more likely than those with a “Medium” or “Low” sense of community to indicate confidence in city government.
- Confidence was higher among residents in zip code 92010 compared to the other three zip codes.
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