Table 3.

Descriptive statistics for perceived neighbourhood characteristics

	All	Traditional neighbourhoods	Early conventional suburban neighbourhoods	Late conventional suburban neighbourhoods	Difference (p-value)
Accessibility	1.70 (0.89)	2.81 (0.81)	1.39 (0.64)	1.41 (0.66)	<0.001***
Convenient access to a store
Convenient access to a park or a playground
Good access to public transportation
Enough park or recreational space in or near the neighbourhood
Traffic safety	2.70 (0.80)	2.47 (0.59)	2.38 (0.54)	3.77 (0.63)	<0.001***
Low amounts of vehicle traffic
Enough sidewalks
Well-maintained sidewalks
Well lighted at night
Not many street intersections
Aesthetics	3.23 (0.58)	3.48 (0.50)	3.09 (0.53)	3.34 (0.70)	<0.001***
Well-maintained properties
Many large and mature trees
Natural features such as lakes, ponds, forests
A variety of architectural styles
Interesting things to see
Social environment	3.76 (0.63)	3.32 (0.59)	3.86 (0.54)	3.96 (0.68)	<0.001***
Little or no crime
Physically active neighbours
Frequent interaction with neighbours
Many people walking around
Number of respondents	289	62	165	62

Notes:

The number refers to the mean of each variable in its corresponding neighbourhood. Standard errors are in parentheses. The difference refers to whether each variable is statistically significant across the three types of neighbourhoods, using the one-way ANOVA.

^*p≤0.05;

^**p≤0.01;

^***p≤0.001.