A Report on our November Community Survey - Piqua Edition

Piqua residents provide insights on their community!

Last month, Civic Capacity asked our readers to fill out a small three-minute survey gauging their thoughts and feelings about their hometown. This publication has been putting out this survey every other month for over a year and up to this point, the responses from the survey have almost been exclusively from Troy. You can read about our latest round of survey results from Troy here:

Yet, this past month was different. As another sign of the steady growth of this publication, twelve residents from Piqua participated in our survey and as promised, this newsletter will report on those results.

And while twelve responses isn’t, nothing, it’s still just twelve responses. It’s statistically hard to have twelve responses speak for an entire community of nearly 20,000 people. In fact, the margin of error for these responses is a pretty whopping 28%. In other words, take these results with a huge grain of salt.

However, hopefully these survey results will prompt more responses from the Piqua community next month! The more responses our newsletter gets, the more valid the results of this effort are; the success of these surveys largely depend on you — our readers, to take the take to share your thoughts, ideas and opinions.

Right Track vs. Wrong Track

When the survey asked respondents if the nation, state and the community were on the right track, the responses were a bit mixed. When it came to the nation, 50% stated that our nation was on the wrong track, while 25% state it was headed in the right direction and another 25% were not sure. Looking at the state of Ohio, respondents were split; 40% said that both the state was headed in the right direction and headed on the wrong track; 20% weren’t sure. When it came to the Piqua community, 58% believed the community was headed in the wrong direction, 17% believed Piqua was headed in the right direction and 25% weren’t sure.

Community Awareness

All the respondents to the survey stated that they at least had some awareness of issues facing the community. Two-thirds of respondents stated that they were very aware of community issues, while 17% stated that they were extremely aware and another 17% stated that they were somewhat aware.

Confidence in the Future

Perhaps the most muddled picture from our twelve respondents came from the question on whether people believed things would get better in Piqua over the next twelve months. 8% stated that they were extremely confident that things would be better in one year. 33% stated that they were somewhat confident that things would improve. Another 33% expected to see no change over the year. 8% were somewhat not confident and felt things would probably get worse. 16% stated that they had no confidence and that the community would definitely be worse off in a year.

Community Attachment

Fortunately, for the Piqua community, every respondent had a positive emotional attachment to their community. Half of the respondents stated that they love their community, while the other half stated that they like their community.

Respondent Demographics

Demographically, all the respondents were over age 45. One quarter participating were between 45-54, another quarter were between the ages of 55-64, and one half of the participants were over age 65. There was also an even split between gender for those that filled out the survey. In terms of longevity in the community, 83% of respondents were residents of more than 20 years in the community, while 8% were residents between 10 and 20 years and the final 8% were relatively new residents, living in Piqua for less than 2 years.

What Do You Think?

What do you think about our survey’s first results from Piqua? Our paid subscribers are more than welcome to leave their ideas and insights in the comment thread!

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