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The Social Science Research Center (SSRC) at Old Dominion 91����Ƶ (ODU) recently completed data collection for the 15th annual Life in Hampton Roads (LIHR) survey. The purpose of this survey is to gain insight into residents’ perceptions of the quality of life in Hampton Roads as well as other topics of local interest such as perceptions of police, politics, the economy, education, and health. Funding for the 2024 survey was provided by the Social Science Research Center and the Dragas Center for Economic Policy. The SSRC would like to thank the College of Arts and Letters and the ODU Office of Research for their continued support of the survey. A total of 640 telephone surveys were completed between June 4 and August 16, 2024. Surveys were completed over the telephone as they have been for all years except 2020 and 2021. This year, a mixture of listed and random-digit dial (RDD) cell phone and landline telephone numbers were used. In accordance with the practice of many social science surveys and political polls, this year we added education as a weighting variable, along with the variables that were included in our weighting protocol previously (phone type, gender, age, race, and Hispanic background). The “new” weight including education is used throughout the report except where noted. Changes to weighting this year and the temporary switch to web survey methodology during the Covid-19 pandemic limit, to some degree, the ability to compare this year’s results with those from previous years, or to confidently generalize the results to the Hampton Roads population as a whole. However, some comparisons are provided in this year’s report.��