SEATTLE, Dec. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Americans would
most like to be neighbors with Leonard
Hofstadter and Penny from CBS's The Big Bang Theory,
according to the 11th annual Zillow® Celebrity Neighbor
Surveyi. The Simpson family from FOX's The
Simpsons were named the least desirable TV neighbors for
2017.
For the first time ever, Zillow rolled out a new questionnaire
for its annual celebrity neighbor survey. The 2017 survey asks U.S.
adults which fictional characters from popular television shows
they would most like to have as a neighbor and with whom they
wouldn't want to share a fence.
Most Desirable Neighbors in 2018
Leonard and Penny
from The Big Bang Theory are the top choice for neighbors in
2018, earning 19 percent of surveyed adults' votes. The couple
received strong results from voters across different genders,
generations and education levels, but was slightly less popular
among voters from the West, earning just 16 percent of their
votes.
The Dunphys from ABC's Modern Family and the Simpsons
tied for the second most desirable neighbors, with 11 percent of
the votes each. Will and Grace from NBC's newly revitalized sitcom
of the same name rounded out the top four rankings, earning just 10
percent of the votes, followed by Jack and
Rebecca Pearson from NBC's This is Us (9 percent) and
the Johnsons from ABC's Black-ish (5 percent).
Least Desirable Neighbors from 2017
The Simpsons
topped the list of least desirable neighbors from television with
31 percent of the votes. Adults over the age of 55 were most likely
to name the family as the least desirable neighbors (at 38
percent), while only 24 percent of millennials cited the Simpsons
as the least desirable neighbors in the poll.
The Lannisters from HBO's Game of Thrones came in second
on the list with 21 percent of the votes, ranking much higher than
the rest of the competitors, including Sheldon Cooper and Amy
Farrah Fowler from The Big Bang Theory (9 percent),
Olivia Pope from ABC's
Scandal (6 percent) and the Jennings from FX's The
Americans (5 percent).
"The Big Bang Theory is one of the most popular shows on
television, so it is not surprising that American adults chose its
leading couple as the most desirable neighbors for 2018," said
Jeremy Wacksman, chief marketing
officer at Zillow. "On the other hand, it wouldn't be easy to live
next to the Simpsons, who have spent nearly 30 seasons causing
chaos for neighbor Ned Flanders and
the rest of Springfield. However, as the stars of one of TV's
longest-running shows, The Simpsons are certainly beloved by some:
they also tied for second on the most desirable neighbor list."
Thirty-five percent of surveyed adults said they would not want
to live next to any of the characters listed in the poll.
Most Desirable
Neighbors for 2018
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Least Desirable
Neighbors of 2017
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Name
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Percent
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Name
|
Percent
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Leonard Hofstadter
and Penny (The Big Bang Theory)
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19%
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The Simpsons (The
Simpsons)
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31%
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The Simpsons (The
Simpsons)
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11%
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The Lannisters
(Game of Thrones)
|
21%
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The Dunphys
(Modern Family)
|
11%
|
Sheldon Cooper and
Amy Farrah Fowler (Big Bang Theory)
|
9%
|
Will & Grace
(Will & Grace)
|
10%
|
Olivia Pope
(Scandal)
|
6%
|
Jack and Rebecca
Pearson (This is Us)
|
9%
|
The Jennings (The
Americans)
|
5%
|
The Johnsons
(Black-ish)
|
5%
|
None of the
above
|
27%
|
None of the
above
|
35%
|
|
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For more news on celebrity real estate and unique homes, visit
Zillow's blog, Porchlight.
For historical survey resultsii or more information
contact press@zillow.com.
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i These
are findings from an Ipsos® poll conducted November 29, 2017 on
behalf of Zillow. For the survey, a sample of 1,000 adults age 18+
from the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii was interviewed online
in English. The poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus
3.5 percentage points for all respondents and a credibility
interval adjusted for design effect of the following (n=1,000,
DEFF=1.5, adjusted Confidence Interval=5.0). Post-hoc weights were
made to the population characteristics on gender, age, region,
race/ethnicity and income. For more information about Ipsos online
polling methodology, please go here http://goo.gl/yJBkuf. The views
expressed in these survey results are those of the individual
survey participants and not of Zillow Group, Inc.
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ii Harris
Interactive® fielded the Zillow Celebrity Neighbor study on behalf
of Zillow in December 2007, December 2008, and December 2009
interviewing a nationwide sample of more than 2,000 U.S. adults
aged 18 years and older via its QuickQuerySM online omnibus
service. Historical results are available upon request.
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