Safety In Carlsbad |
OVERVIEW
More than eight out of ten residents felt safe walking alone in their neighborhood either during the day or after dark. Overwhelmingly, 98.3 percent of residents felt safe walking alone in their neighborhood during the day (with 85.9 percent reporting they felt “Very safe”) and 85.5 percent of residents indicating they felt safe walking alone after dark (51.4% “Very safe”).
Figure 10 - Safety in Carlsbad
Given the extremely high percentage of residents who felt safe walking alone in their neighborhood during the day (and thereby the limited amount of differentiation that can be found among the variables), the focus of the sub-group analysis to follow is on safety walking alone after dark.
- Residents with a high sense of community (derived across seven variables) were more likely to report feeling safe than those with a medium or low sense of community.
- Residents who reported dissatisfaction with the job the City is doing to provide services, those that were not confident in city government to make decisions that positively affect the lives of residents, as well as those who provided low ratings to the City’s job balancing the various land uses in the City were more likely to report feeling unsafe than their sub-group counterparts.
- Although no statistically significant differences were found by whether or not residents had visited the Carlsbad Village (or by frequency of visiting), residents’ experience visiting the Village was positively correlated with “Very safe” ratings. In other words, the higher their rating for their Village experience, the higher the percentage reporting feeling “Very safe.”
Subgroup analysis of safety walking alone in their neighborhood after dark continued;
Demographically;
- Homeowners reported a higher perception of safety walking alone in their neighborhood after dark as compared to renters who were more than twice as likely to report feeling unsafe (18.5% vs. 9.1%).
- Residents in the 35 to 44 year age group reported the highest feelings of safety (92.6%), whereas those in the 18 to 24 year age category reported the highest percentage of feeling unsafe (18.8%).
- Residents who identified as either “Caucasian or White” or “Other” reported higher feelings of safety (86.9% and 96.6%, respectively) than Hispanic or Latino(a) or Asian residents (76.4% and 79.4%, respectively).
- Female residents were close to three times as likely to report feeling unsafe walking alone in their neighborhood after dark as compared to male residents (16.4% vs. 5.8%).
- Residents of zip code 92008 reported lower safety ratings than residents in each of the three other zip codes in the City (92008: 16.1% felt unsafe; 92009: 8.9%; 92010: 8.6%; 92011: 10.4%).
- No statistically significant differences in residents’ feelings of safety walking alone in their neighborhood after dark were found by length of residence or children in the household.
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