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Wake County presents preliminary 'Wake Insights' survey: affordable housing, growth and infrastructure top residents' concerns
Summary
County staff showed initial results from the Wake Insights community survey, based on 1,006 technical respondents (3.1% margin of error). Affordable housing and homelessness, and growth/ infrastructure, led unprompted lists of top concerns; staff said results will help set baselines for the county's strategic plan.
Wake County staff presented initial results from Wake Insights, a countywide community survey, during the March 10 Board of Commissioners work session, saying the technical sample included 1,006 respondents with a 3.1% margin of error.
The survey, which ran from November 2024 through January 2025, was designed to measure resident perceptions rather than service satisfaction. "A community survey is, really the way our approach to it is a public opinion poll," Jason Horton told commissioners, explaining the vendor selection and sampling approach.
Horton said the vendor, ETC Institute, sought a representative statistical sample by gender, age, race, ethnicity, income, education and geography and that the county also provided an open link for additional responses. He said staff plans to share final results with departments and to use the survey to establish baseline metrics for the county’s strategic plan.
Why it matters: commissioners said the findings will…
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