Philadelphians are surprisingly OK with city services

Philly has a rep for having a certain attitude about itself.

For the past year, the city’s Office of Performance Management has been polling Philadelphians about their feelings on city services. Conducted with the help of Temple University Institute for Survey Research, the survey was relaunched this winter after an initial September 2016 launch that didn’t yield enough minority participation.

The findings were released yesterday: According to the 2016-2017 Philadelphia Resident Survey as completed by 8,683 residents, their top three concerns are streets, sanitation and public safety.

Philadelphians rated the city’s services overall as 35 percent “excellent or good,” 47 percent “fair” and 17 percent “poor.”

That means 82 percent are pretty OK with how things are going. Not bad for Negadelphia.