Those responding to survey say Lake Worth making progress | www.mypalmbeachpost.com

Click title for link to the PBP account.  These are some of the results highlighted.

SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS

— 68 percent said the city is heading in the right direction and has made progress in the past 12 months.

— 37 percent ranked the city’s overall condition as “average,” while 46 percent ranked its condition as below average or poor.

— Job creation and crime reduction ranked high as ways to reduce the city’s high poverty rate.

— Potholes ranked high as the biggest problem with streets and sidewalks. Other street problems that ranked high: cracked pavement, bad drainage, broken sidewalks and a lack of sidewalks.

— Most of the survey respondents — 63 percent — said they have lived in Lake Worth for more than 10 years. In all, 84 percent said they own homes in the city.

As about 50 percent of the residents citywide are renters, it seems like it is not a representative sample of all the residents.  We would look a lot different if Lake Worth had 84 percent of its houses occupied by homeowners.