Does the Accessibility of the Built Environment Affect the Willingness of Rural Residents to Relocate Their Homes

With the construction of new urbanization, more and more rural residents have the idea or behavior of relocating their residence to towns/cities where it is more convenient to live, work, and educate, however, few scholars have studied the residential choice behavior of rural residents from the perspective of accessibility. This study explored the relationship between built environment accessibility and rural residents’ willingness to relocate from a microscopic perspective, using rural residents in 28 rural villages in eight districts of Chengdu, Sichuan Province as the study population. The team conducted a five-day household research in villages and obtained 678 research data. The results of the study found that the percentage of rural residents with the intention to relocate varied significantly across socio-demographic variables, while distance differences in the objective built environment and satisfaction with the accessibility of the current residence may affect rural residents’ intention to relocate.

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Accessibility; Willingness to relocate; Rural

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Does the Accessibility of the Built Environment Affect the Willingness of Rural Residents to Relocate Their Homes

How to cite this paper: Yunhong Liu, Yibin Ao. (2026). Does the Accessibility of the Built Environment Affect the Willingness of Rural Residents to Relocate Their Homes. Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1(1), 14-17.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jema.2026.06.004

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