**3. Research method**

There are 30 residential areas with Gated Communities (GCs) in Ibadan. Five (5) residential areas consisting of fifty-seven (57) GCs were purposively selected for demonstrating typical GCs characteristics (see **Table 1**). These include Agodi Government Reservation Area (AGRA), with ten (10) GCs; New Bodija Scheme (NBS) with fifteen (15) GCs; Old Bodija Scheme (OBS) with thirty (30) GCs; Kolapo Ishola Scheme (KIS) with one (1) GC and Alalubosa Government Reservation Area (ALGRA), with one (1) GC. Thirty GCs representing 52.6% of the 57 GCs were sampled from the five residential areas. There are a total of four thousand, nine hundred and twenty-two (4,922) residential buildings in the selected GCs. Four


**Table 1.** *Locations of residential areas with gated communities (GCs) in Ibadan metropolitan area.*

## *Sustainable Housing*

hundred and ninety-three (493) representing 10% of the residential buildings were selected and from which each household head was sampled using a systematic sampling technique. The data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. **Table 1** shows the locations of residential areas with Gated Communities (GCs) in Ibadan metropolitan area and **Table 2** shows the target population for the study while **Table 3** shows the distribution of administered and returned questionnaires.

About 493 questionnaires were distributed out of which 396 (80.4%) were returned. **Table 3** shows the distribution of returned questionnaires across the GCs selected for the study.


#### **Table 2.**

*Target population for the study.*


#### **Table 3.**

*Distribution of administered and returned questionnaires.*
