Not All City People: Millennials Just as Likely to Identify as “Suburbanites”

Source: Urban Land Institute [pdf]

Notes: Some 37% of Millennials (aged 19-36 at the time of the survey) identify as “city people,” while 36% consider themselves “suburbanites,” according to an Urban Land Institute survey. In fact, white respondents were more likely to consider themselves “suburbanites” (37%) than “city people” (33%), although the opposite was true for Hispanics and Black Americans. Interestingly, only 13% of respondents live in a downtown area or near downtown, although another 35% live in “other” city neighborhoods. As such, Millennials appear less likely to identify as “city people” (37%) than they are to actually live in a city (48%). (more…)