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Student Gentrification and Neighborhood Change Survey

Captures how residents, students, and local business owners experience neighborhood change linked to growing student populations — rents, displacement, local business shifts, and town-gown relations — with an AI follow-up that digs into specific, lived examples behind the numbers instead of vague impressions.

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14 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Thanks for taking a few minutes to share your experience of how student population growth has affected your neighborhood. There are no right answers — we want your honest view. This should take about 5-6 minutes.

Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired

Which best describes your relationship to this neighborhood?

  • Long-term resident (10+ years)
  • Newer resident (under 10 years)
  • Local business owner or employee
  • Current student
  • Landlord or property owner
  • Other
Q03
Number

How many years have you lived, worked, or studied in this neighborhood?

Q04
Opinion ScaleRequired

How much has this neighborhood changed because of a growing student population?

Scale: 0 – 10
Min:No noticeable changeMax:Completely transformed
Q05
MatrixRequired

Thinking about the growth of the student population here, how has it affected each of the following?

6 rows × 5 columns
  • Housing affordability
  • Availability of long-term rental housing
  • Mix of local shops and restaurants
  • Noise and late-night activity
  • Sense of community or neighborliness
  • +1 more
Columns: Very negative · Somewhat negative · No real impact · Somewhat positive · Very positive
Q06
Multiple ChoiceRequired

In the last 3 years, how has your own housing cost (rent or mortgage-related expenses) changed?

  • Decreased
  • Stayed about the same
  • Increased slightly
  • Increased significantly
  • Not applicable / prefer not to say
Q07
RankingRequired

Rank these concerns about student-driven neighborhood change from most to least pressing for you.

  1. Rising rents or home prices
  2. Displacement of long-term residents
  3. Loss of neighborhood character
  4. Increased noise or parties
  5. Parking and traffic congestion
  6. Decline of family-oriented businesses
  7. Overcrowded shared housing
Drag to rank
Q08
Multiple ChoiceRequired

Over the past year, has the balance between long-term residents and students in your area shifted?

  • More students than before
  • More long-term residents than before
  • About the same
  • Not sure
Q09
AI Interview

Probe the 'why' behind the respondent's rating of how much the neighborhood has changed and the impact ratings on housing, business mix, and community. Ask for one or two specific, concrete examples they've personally witnessed (a business closing, a longtime neighbor moving out, a new type of housing being built) rather than general impressions. If their overall view is negative, ask what single change would most improve relations between students and long-term residents; if positive, ask what makes the integration work well here.

Q10
Multiple ChoiceRequired

How would you describe the day-to-day relationship between students and long-term residents in your neighborhood today?

  • Improving
  • Worsening
  • Staying about the same
  • Little to no interaction either way
Q11
Multiple Choice

Which of the following measures would you support to manage the effects of student gentrification in your area? Select all that apply.

  • Caps or controls on rent increases
  • Purpose-built student housing located away from residential streets
  • Licensing requirements for shared student rental properties
  • Community liaison programs between students and residents
  • Limits on how many student rentals are allowed per street
  • No changes needed
Q12
Multiple Choice

What is your housing situation?

  • Own my home
  • Rent privately
  • Rent through social or affordable housing
  • Live with family or roommates rent-free
  • Prefer not to say
Q13
Multiple Choice

What is your age range?

  • 18-24
  • 25-34
  • 35-49
  • 50-64
  • 65 or older
  • Prefer not to say
Q14
Message

Thank you for sharing your perspective. Your answers will feed into a report on how student population growth is reshaping local neighborhoods and what might ease the tension between students and long-term residents.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Opens with a plain-language framing message so respondents (residents, students, or business owners) understand the purpose before answering
  • Combines structured measures — a matrix on how student growth affects specific aspects of the neighborhood, a ranking of top concerns, and multiple-choice questions on housing cost trends and resident-student relations — with an AI follow-up interview that probes the 'why' behind a respondent's change rating
  • Uses a numeric tenure question and housing/age/relationship-to-neighborhood classifiers so reports can be segmented by how long someone has lived there and their stake in the area
  • Closes with a transparent chat message telling respondents their answers feed into a report, and results are compiled into an auto-generated report rather than requiring manual tabulation

QuestionPro

Student Gentrification Survey Questions + Sample Questionnaire Template

This is a genuinely comparable template covering the same student-gentrification topic, but it reads as a static sample questionnaire rather than a fielding-ready adaptive instrument. It's useful as a question bank/reference but doesn't include any dynamic follow-up mechanism.

What it does well

  • Directly on-topic with pre-written question examples specific to student gentrification
  • Backed by QuestionPro's established survey platform with broad distribution and analytics tooling
  • Likely free to browse and copy as a starting question list

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI follow-up — all respondents see the same fixed question set regardless of their answers, so nuance behind ratings goes uncaptured
  • No voice AI interview option or guided screen-share tasks for deeper qualitative context
  • No visible per-response quality scoring or transparent prompt methodology for how questions were derived

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