Investigating the Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Households’ Residential Location Choice Using Multinomial Logit Analysis

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1 Department of Architecture, School of Design and Architecture, Dar Al-Hekma University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 2 Department of Architecture Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt.

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Increasing amounts of literature have been published recently on 
the factors that influence household residential location 
decisions. These factors include transportation accessibility, 
physical and environmental aspects of neighborhoods, 
household socioeconomic characteristics, and others. However, 
few research has looked at how the attributes of a housing 
location influence households’ choices. As a result, the primary 
goal of this study is to examine the influencing factors for 
households’ residential location choices. This has been achieved 
by developing a discrete choice analysis that utilizes a 
multinomial logit model, using state-wide data from the National 
Household Travel Survey (NHTS). The key findings of this 
study reveal that the most influential factors include; household 
income, race, household size, number of vehicles in the
household, type of housing, and the household structure. The 
critical factors linked with high-income groups include access to 
school, proximity to work, and closeness to friends and family.

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