Overall rating and future projection for the next 5 to 10 years of strength or quality of urban/community forestry program in community (on a scale where 1 = very weak/poor and 6 = very strong/good). Standard errors are shown in parentheses for the mean strength scores, and number of towns (N) is shown in parentheses for percentages.
| Town population class | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118–500 | 501–1K | 1K–3K | 3K–10K | 10K–50K | > 50,000 | All towns | |
| Strength/quality mean score | 1.9 (0.2) | 2.1 (0.3) | 2.3 (0.2) | 2.4 (0.3) | 2.8 (0.3) | 3.9 (0.4) | 2.4 (0.1) |
| Will get worse | 3.3% (1) | 11.1% (2) | 3.4% (1) | 3.8% (1) | 0.0% (0) | 14.3% (1) | 5.4% (6) |
| Will stay the same | 50.0% (14) | 50.0% (9) | 44.8% (13) | 34.6% (9) | 35.0% (7) | 0.0% (0) | 40.0% (53) |
| Will get better | 46.7% (14) | 38.9% (7) | 51.7% (15) | 61.5% (16) | 65.0% (13) | 85.7% (6) | 54.6% (71) |