2025 Baltimore Area Survey
Documentation & Codebook
1 Overview
The 2025 Baltimore Area Survey (BAS) is a survey of a representative sample of adults in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, Maryland.
1.1 Data
BAS 2025 data are available for download at https://github.com/JHUCities/baltimore-area-survey-data/tree/main/data/bas-2025.
1.2 Background
The BAS is the signature program of the 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. Its goal is to develop data that support community needs in the Baltimore area that supports scientific research. The program seeks to survey a sample of residents annually to allow for timely data for community members and researchers.
Researchers at 21CC and the Community Collaborators Committee (CCC) identify topics in need of investigation to understand the city, its surroundings, and its people. The CCC comprises leaders from community organizations, nonprofits, businesses, and government office. The CCC works with faculty and graduate students to investigate the topics to identify the topics identified through the survey data collected.
1.3 Themes and Objectives
The BAS 2025 is the third wave of the Baltimore Area Survey. The survey is conducted using a repeated cross-sectional design so that the samples are drawn independently from year to year. Some questions were previously asked on prior waves of the BAS while others were new to this survey.
- Neighborhoods
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questions about resident perceptions of neighborhoods and conditions in residents’ own neighborhoods including satisfaction, neighborhood problems, social cohesion, and schools
- Environment
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questions about air and soil quality, flooding, and questions about managing extreme heat
- Finance and Economy
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questions about the state of the US and Baltimore-area economy, job security, costs of daily living, and concerns about future costs
- Governance
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questions about trust in different levels of government and satisfaction with government services