Research, Evaluation & Innovation

Flourishing Community Pulse: The Full Dataset

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About this survey: 1,106 Jewish adults, spring 2026, within about 3 points

In spring 2026, 1,106 Jewish adults across San Diego answered the Flourishing Community Pulse Survey, part of a national study run by Jewish Federations of North America across more than thirty communities. Every question is shown below, exactly as it was asked.

The survey measures eight pillars of a flourishing Jewish community: feeling connected to Israel and Jews worldwide, being active in civic life and in building ties with others, feeling safe, feeling you belong, being engaged in Jewish life here, caring for one another, knowing where to turn for help with health and wellbeing, and having access to Jewish learning, or being educated. Every one of the questions below sits inside one of those eight.

Why a sample of 1,106 can speak for the community

The 1,106 people who answered were chosen at random and invited by text message and postcard, so everyone had the same chance of being asked, whether or not they are connected to a Jewish organization. That randomness is what makes the accuracy calculable: the formula depends on how many people answered, not the size of the community. This is why only a thousand people are needed for a national poll speaking for 300 million Americans. At 1,106 answers, almost every figure here is within about 3 points of the true community value, 19 times out of 20. Quadrupling the responses only halves the error, and around a thousand answers is the point where that curve flattens and further interviewing stops buying much more precision. Six in ten of those who answered are not involved with Jewish organizations, which is the clearest evidence that we reached well past the people we already know.

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Nothing here is fixed: you choose the topic, you choose who to look at, and the charts redraw around what you asked. Follow whatever you think matters, rather than only what we chose to highlight.

Use Group by in the left column to split any answer by age, denomination, engagement, financial situation and eighteen other characteristics. Use Find a question to jump straight to a topic.

Percentages are weighted to the Jewish population of San Diego. Overall margin of error is ±3%, and wider for any single group.

The eight pillars

Every survey question sits inside one of eight pillars of a flourishing Jewish community. Each score is the share of people who agreed, averaged across all the questions that make up that pillar. Choose a group from the dropdown menu below, then choose the subcategory to the right, to see how it compares with San Diego as a whole. Every figure on this page describes San Diego, not the national average.

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Notes on reading this data

How the charts work. The chart follows the question. Seven-point agreement statements are drawn as one bar reading outward from a center line, disagree to the left and agree to the right, with the two totals beside it. Shorter scales are drawn as a single bar divided into its answer categories. Yes-or-no questions are drawn as a ring. Questions with a natural numeric order, such as age or years in San Diego, are drawn as columns. Everything else is drawn as plain bars. When you group the answers, the whole community appears as a faded first row so you can see the difference at a glance.

Rounding. Percentages are rounded to whole numbers and may not total 100. Rows shown in dark blue with bold labels are summary totals calculated by the research team, such as combining “strongly agree” through “somewhat agree” into a single AGREE figure.

Group sizes. The number of people in each group appears beside its name. Groups under roughly 100 people move around a great deal from question to question; read them as a direction rather than a precise figure. Where a cell was too small to report, it is left blank.

What is not shown. Thirteen technical items are omitted: the ten income-bracket follow-up probes, a duplicate age banding, a duplicate race variable, and one open-text list of organization names. Open-ended questions appear as the coded themes the research team assigned, not as individual responses.

The eight pillars. The score for each pillar is the average share of people who agreed across the questions that make up that pillar, on a 0 to 100 scale. The headline figures at the top of this page are the ones Jewish Federations of North America published for San Diego, and every comparison on this page is against San Diego overall rather than against the national average. Recalculating them from the responses below reproduces five of the eight exactly; three land within about three points, because the national analysis uses only the questions asked identically in every wave. Group comparisons are shown as differences in points rather than as separate scores, so that every figure rests on the same calculation.

Source. JFNA Flourishing Community Pulse Survey, San Diego cross-tabulation banner book. Fielded 15 April to 28 May 2026 by Burson, formerly Benenson Strategy Group, for Jewish Federations of North America and Jewish Federation of San Diego. Respondents were selected at random rather than from organizational mailing lists.

Questions about the data

Every figure here comes from the Flourishing Community Study, fielded in San Diego in spring 2026.

If a number needs explaining, or you need a cut this page does not offer, Henri ran the study.

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Dr. Henri Migala

Director, Research, Evaluation & Innovation

henrim@jewishinsandiego.org