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Residents of Orange County give their public services ratings as high as residents did in the early 1980s, indicating once again how little growth seems to have affected perceived quality of life. When the excellent and good rankings are combined, residents today are about as likely as they were in 1982 to give positive ratings to local roads (68% to 72%) and local parks and beaches (81% to 82%) and more likely to give positive ratings to local police protection (82% to 76%) and local public schools (61% to 45%). Moreover, positive ratings of local services have improved dramatically over the ratings in 1991: Excellent or good ratings are at least 10 points higher for local roads (68% to 58%), local parks and beaches (81% to 71%), local police (82% to 59%), and local public schools (61% to 28%).
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1982 and 1991 results are from the Orange County Annual Survey, UCI, by Mark Baldassare and Cheryl Katz.
There are no differences across racial and ethnic groups in the proportion of excellent or good ratings given to local roads. However, non-Hispanic whites are more positive than others about local parks and local police, and Asians and Latinos are more positive than non-Hispanic whites about local public schools. The ratings of public services do vary across regions: South County residents are consistently more positive than North County residents about local roads (79% to 63%), local parks and beaches (89% to 78%), local police (87% to 80%), and local public schools (68% to 58%). Higher-income residents are more positive than others about local police, parks, and schools. Residents with children in the public schools give their local schools higher ratings than others do (78% to 52%).
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