City Survey Shows What Resident Love, Hate About Bellevue

BELLEVUE, WA — If you live in Bellevue, chances are you think things are going pretty great. At least that's what the city's 2019 Annual Resident Performance Survey found.

The city's annual poll asks residents to give feedback on key performance areas, like whether the city is headed in the right direction and quality of life.

The top-line finding is that 93 percent of residents say quality of life in Bellevue exceeds or greatly exceeds expectations. That's about two points higher than the 2018 survey, although lower than the years 2014 through 2016.

Here are more top-level results from the survey:

Quality of city services: 91 percent of residents say city services exceed or greatly exceed expectations.

Value of city services: 76 percent say they are getting a good value for how much they pay in taxes and fees. That's six points higher compared to the 2018 survey.

Direction city is headed: 73 percent say the city is strongly or somewhat headed in the right direction. The top complaints about the city's direction included traffic, development moving too fast, and the cost of living (including taxes).

Bellevue as a place to live: 95 percent feel Bellevue as a whole is either a good or excellent place to live, the same share as in 2018.

Neighborhood ratings: 94 percent of people feel their neighborhood is either a good or excellent place to live, just one point lower than in 2018.

The survey was conducted earlier this year in a variety of different languages. Five-hundred and thirty-three Bellevue residents took part, and the poll has a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points in either direction.