2024 Community Survey
What is the Community Survey?
Every two years, the City of Sammamish conducts a scientific survey of randomly selected households in Sammamish to hear directly from community members on their priority issues, gauge their level of satisfaction with City services, and gather information to track topics and trends over time.
The biennial survey uses rigorous statistical methodology to provide City leaders with a critical snapshot of which services and issues community members feel are important, which service areas have improved over time, and which service areas could improve in the future. The survey results are used by departments and divisions throughout the entire City organization to help identify budgeting and funding priorities, target specific services or programs for improvements, and to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of nearly every part of the City’s day-to-day operations.
2024 Community Survey
The 2024 Community Survey is now complete!
The City of Sammamish recently completed its 2024 Community Survey, capturing resident sentiment on ten facets of community livability. Out of 3,000 randomly selected households, 322 completed the survey, representing a diverse cross-section of the population and resulting in a 95% level of confidence. Polco, the company who conducted the survey, has worked with over 500 communities nationwide and compared Sammamish’s results against their database of benchmarks. The results are summarized in their report.
Highest-performing areas
- Natural environment – Residents overwhelmingly appreciated the natural environment in Sammamish, with nearly all ratings scoring above the national benchmarks.
- Safety – Sammamish earned above-average marks for the overall feeling of safety, remaining steady from the City’s last survey in 2018.
- Parks & Recreation – The overall quality of parks and recreation opportunities, the quality of City parks, and the availability of paths and walking rails all earned favorable reviews that were higher than comparison communities.
- Mobility – Assessments for mobility trended upward over the 2018 results in many instances, including the traffic flow, ease of travel by car and bicycle, traffic signal timing, and street cleaning.
Lowest-performing areas
- Economic health – Although results indicated satisfaction with the overall economic health of Sammamish, below-average ratings were noted for the vibrancy of commercial areas, variety of business/service establishments, employment and shopping opportunities, and cost of living.
- Education, Culture and Arts – Declines were seen in several aspects, such as opportunities to attend events, availability of affordable quality childcare and preschool, and adult educational opportunities.