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Q U A L IT Y OF L I F E & CITY S ERVICES <br />The opening section of the survey was designed to gauge voters' opinions regarding the quality <br />of life in Santa Ana, their ideas for how it can be improved, as well as their assessment of the <br />City's performance in providing municipal services. <br />nIJALITY OF LIFE At the outset of the interview, voters were asked to rate the quality of life <br />in the City of Santa Ana using a five -point scale of excellent, good, fair, poor, or very poor. As <br />shown in Figure 1 below, half of voters shared favorable opinions of the quality of life in Santa <br />Ana, with 6% reporting it is excellent and 44% stating it is good. Approximately 35% of voters <br />surveyed rated the quality of life in the City as fair, whereas just 14% used poor or very poor to <br />describe the quality of life in Santa Ana and 1 % were unsure or unwilling to answer the question. <br />Question 2 How would you rate the overall quality of life in Santa Ana? Would you say it is <br />excellent, good, fair, poor or very poor? <br />FIGURE 1 QUALITY OF LIFE <br />Figures 2 and 3 show how ratings of the quality of life <br />Not sure Prefer not to answer in the City of Santa Ana varied by length of residence, <br />0.5 0.6 presence of a child in the household, survey language, <br />Very poor I Excellent age, home ownership status, and gender. When com- <br />5.2 5.7 <br />pared to their respective counterparts, quality of life <br />Poor ratings (excellent and good) were highest among voters <br />8.9 <br />who have lived in the City less than 10 years, those <br />without children in the home, individuals who com- <br />pleted the survey in English or Spanish, and voters <br />Good 43.8 under the age of 30. Ratings were generally consistent <br />Fair by home ownership status and gender. <br />35.3 <br />FIGURE 2 QUALITY OF LIFE BY YEARS IN SANTA ANA, CHILD IN HSLD & SURVEY LANGUAGE <br />80 <br />70 <br />60 <br />50 <br />v <br />c <br />0 40 <br />0a <br />N <br />N <br />30 <br />20 <br />10 <br />0 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />True North Research, Inc. © 2025 • <br />