Life Satisfaction Among Yongin Special City Residents Higher Than Previous Year...Traffic Network Development Identified as Challenge

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hoon] Residents of Yongin Special City showed a slight increase in satisfaction with living in Yongin compared to the previous year.

According to Yongin City on the 7th, the city released the '2022 Yongin City Social Survey Report' on its website's Yongin Statistics section, based on a survey of 1,590 sampled households with members aged 15 and older.

Residents' satisfaction with their lives scored 6.3 out of 10, a 0.3 point increase from the previous year.

Satisfaction with their residential areas also scored 6.3 points, up 0.4 points from 5.9 points in 2021.

The most pressing policy issue identified by Yongin residents was 'improving commute traffic conditions and developing metropolitan transportation networks (41.7%),' followed by 'fostering future growth industries and creating a city favorable for business (15.3%)' and 'promoting eco-friendly and ecological-centered regional development (10.0%)'.

The welfare and administrative services most needed by Yongin residents were 'housing-related support (20.0%),' 'expanded physical health and medical services (18.7%),' and 'job creation (17.8%)'.

Regarding housing types, apartments were the highest at 68.3%, followed by detached houses (17.1%) and townhouses and multi-family residences (12.4%).

Views on marriage show that the perception 'it is good to marry' is gradually declining, while 'marriage is optional' is steadily increasing.

Residents who responded that marriage is good decreased from 25.4% (2016), 20.9% (2018), to 17.2% (2022).

The percentage of residents who think marriage is optional increased steadily from 32.9% (2016), 36.1% (2018), to 40.6% (2022).

Residents planning to have children within five years accounted for 6.4% (2022).

This decreased compared to 11.2% in 2016 and 6.7% in 2018.

When asked about causes of low birth rates, residents most cited 'burden of child-rearing (30.8%),' followed by 'insufficient work-life balance conditions and environment (22.2%)' and 'housing cost burden (16.9%)'.

The average monthly household spending on private education was 1.068 million won (2022), and the average monthly per-student private education spending was 695,000 won (2022).

The Yongin City Social Survey Report can be accessed by any citizen by visiting the city website, going to 'Information by Category' - 'Statistics,' and clicking on the Social Survey publications at the bottom left.