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Local Public Services and Local Government Ratings Orange County residents are highly satisfied with their local services. Despite the difficult fiscal situations faced by local and state governments, most residents think that their city government is performing well. About eight in 10 rate their local parks and police protection as excellent or good, and two in three give positive ratings to local roads. About six in 10 residents give excellent or good ratings to their public schools. However, ratings of city government, police, and public schools have all shown small declines since last year. Residents also believe their local governments are doing well in solving problems; 53 percent give their city government and 40 percent give the county government an excellent or good rating on that score.
As for regional variations in local service ratings, local parks, police, and roads receive higher grades in the South County than in the North County, while both regions have similar views of their public schools. In terms of racial/ethnic differences, Latinos are considerably more positive than whites about the schools (71% to 54%), while whites are happier than Latinos with local parks (85% to 77%). South County residents and Latinos are somewhat more positive about the performance of their city and county governments. There are no party differences in ratings of city and county governments. By way of comparison, Los Angeles County residents in our March 2003 survey were much less likely than Orange County residents to express positive views of their local parks (62% to 81%), police protection (62% to 79%), roads (46% to 67%), schools (41% to 58%), city government (39% to 53%), and county government (24% to 40%).
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