Impact of Neighborhood Characteristics on Safety Accident: Focus on Occurrence of Safety Accidents by Place in Busan

Abstract

Small accidents are common in places closely related to public life. This study focused on the neighborhood, i.e., the space where our daily lives take place, and sought to identify the characteristics of the neighborhood affecting the occurrence of safety accidents. This study targeted Busan. Busan is highly likely to be vulnerable to safety concerns, as it has the highest proportion and increase rate of the elderly among large cities in Korea. Accordingly, this study classified neighborhoods with similar characteristics and observed the differences in safety accidents by place. Then, the causes of housing safety accidents (the most common type of safety accident) were identified from the neighborhood characteristics. The analysis demonstrated differences in the frequency of safety accidents by place according to the neighborhood type. In most neighborhoods, safety accidents in houses were the most common. In addition, the residents under the age of 14 and over 65, single-person households, housing types, and housing deterioration in a neighborhood were identified as statistically valid factors affecting the occurrence of housing safety accidents.