{"id":231182,"date":"2025-05-08T09:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?post_type=short-read&p=231182"},"modified":"2025-05-08T09:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:51:23","slug":"how-connected-do-americans-feel-to-their-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/05\/08\/how-connected-do-americans-feel-to-their-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"How connected do Americans feel to their neighbors?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Neighbors
Neighbors chat in Broomfield, Colorado, in September 2022. (Melina Mara\/The Washington Post via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Americans differ over what their ideal community looks like<\/a>. But wherever they live, most have neighbors, whether they\u2019re sharing a wall in an apartment building or living several miles down the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a March 2025 survey, we asked Americans a series of questions about their neighbors, including whether they know and trust the other people in their neighborhood and how similar they are to them demographically and politically. We also asked people whether they are likely to do things for their neighbors that might build community ties \u2013 and whether they think their neighbors would do the same things for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How we did this<\/summary>\n

As part of a larger study on interpersonal trust<\/a>, Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to understand how Americans relate to their neighbors. We surveyed 9,482 U.S. adults from March 10 to 16, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone who took part in the survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection. Interviews were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the\u00a0questions used for this analysis<\/a>, the\u00a0topline<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0survey methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

What share of Americans know and trust their neighbors?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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About a quarter of U.S. adults (26%) say they know all or most of their neighbors. Another 62% know only some of them, and 12% don\u2019t know any of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to trust, 44% of adults say they trust all or most of the people in their neighborhood. Another 46% trust some of the people in their neighborhood, while 9% trust none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shares of Americans who say they know and trust their neighbors have both decreased slightly in recent years. In 2018, 31% of Americans said they knew all or most of their neighbors<\/a>, and 52% said in 2015 that they trusted all or most of their neighbors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some groups of Americans are more likely than others both to know all or most of their neighbors and<\/em> to trust all or most of them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n