The Strategic Management and Innovation Office administers three signature City surveys with an independent contractor to ensure anonymity.  Results are presented to the City Council, employees and community in November as part of the kick-off to the annual budget process.

Click on the links below for the dashboards, survey instruments, findings reports, as well as links to supplemental information such as maps, tabular data, and methodology. 

Survey Dashboards 

The survey dashboard offers viewers an interactive way to engage with the survey data through cross tabulations, trends, key demographics of respondents, investment priorities, as well as mapping results and benchmarking.

Community Survey Dashboard

Business Survey Dashboard

Employee Survey Dashboard 

Community Survey

The Tempe Community Survey serves as a tool to assist the City Council and city staff in setting priorities, dedicating resources and establishing goals to improve service. The City values how residents feel about the quality of everything from facilities and programs to events and services.  The community survey is conducted annually.

2024 Survey Instrument & Findings Report & Presentation

2023 Survey Instrument & Findings Report 

2022 Survey Instrument & Findings Report 

2021 Survey Instrument & Findings Report 

2020 Survey Instrument & Findings Report 

2019 Survey Instrument & Findings Report 

2018 Survey Instrument & Findings Report

2017 Survey Instrument & Findings Report

2016 Findings Report

2014 Findings Report

2013 Findings Report

Business Survey

The Tempe Business Survey is utilized to measure and improve the City's performance in supporting our business community. Along with the Tempe Community Survey, the business data influences decisions about projects, programs and services that support our business community.  The business survey is conducted every other year.

2023 Survey Instrument & Findings Report & Presentation (starts on slide 21) 

2021 Survey Instrument & Findings Report

2019 Survey Instrument & Findings Report

2017 Survey Instrument & Findings Report

Employee Survey

The Tempe Employee Survey is administered to City of Tempe employees and volunteers.  The survey provides data and areas of focus for employee engagement and is conducted every other year.

2024 Survey Instrument  & Findings Report & Presentation

2022 Survey Instrument & Findings Report

2020 Survey Instrument & Findings Report 

2018 Survey Instrument & Findings Report

2016 Survey Instrument & Findings Report

Open Tempe

The City of Tempe is committed to transparency and to providing accurate and easy to access data about our community. The City provides the tools you can use to get information about our community’s finances, strategic priorities and more. For more information click HERE.

Tempe Forum

Tempe Forum is an online, town hall-style place for civic engagement. Read what others are saying about important Tempe topics, then post your own statement. City officials will read the statements and incorporate them into their decision processes, if applicable. Tempe Forum is run by OpenGov, a non-partisan company whose mission is to broaden civic engagement and build public trust in government. For more information click HERE.

Valley Benchmark Communities

Valley Benchmark Communities (VBC) is a group of 14 Arizona municipalities working to improve local government performance. VBC is one of the largest and oldest performance management consortiums in the U.S. and covers a population of over 4 million in the Phoenix metro area.  VBC, by working collaboratively with designated representatives from local governments and their communities:

• Identifies common demographic, financial, and performance information.
• Uses this information to better understand the similarities, differences, and complexities of community operations.
• Openly shares best practices, data, and other resources

Strategic Partners: Arizona State University, Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG)

Tempe Population Projection Data and Tempe Union High School District Governing Board's Demographic and Enrollment Update 

To provide population projection information inclusive of demographic details to guide future planning, Mary Mezey, Strategic Initiatives Manager, collaborated with Maricopa Association of Governments’ (MAG) Regional Analytics team to determine population projections for 2020-2060. Staff then conducted analysis of the data.

Additionally, the "Demographic and Enrollment Update” was presented to the Tempe Union High School District Governing Board on April 17, 2024. The proprietary data analytics was presented by the District’s consultants from Applied Economics.