Determinants of households’ stay in urban neighbourhoods— its implications for sustainable development: case of Akure, nigeria

ABSTRACT This study explores residents’ choice to migrate from the city core to stay in close neighbourhoods, with the main objective to evaluate peoples’ preferences. Find out the degree of influence of factors like gender, income, age, years of stay, family composition, ethnicity, and house ownership in determining the choice of stay. An interview and questionnaire were used to elicit information from household heads. The multinomial regression method was applied to test the hypothesis that, ‘there is no significant relationship between choice of stay in neighbourhoods and given factors’. The study revealed that gender, income, years of stay and ethnicity have a negative contribution to the choice of stay, while age, family composition and house ownership have a positive influence. Hence, it is recommended that for sustainability, factors that increase densification to reduce mobility should be encouraged.