BACKGROUND: The community environment is an important factor affecting people's residential relocation; however, existing literature has primarily focused on the objective aspects of the community environment, with less emphasis on residents' perception of it. METHOD: To address this research gap, we selected 74 typical communities and collected 1,568 questionnaires across Guangzhou. We employed factor analysis to capture participants' community environmental perception and used binary logistic regression to analyze the association between independent and dependent variables. RESULTS: The resu...