Polco is a reliable and accurate online polling tool that creates holistic community engagement.
Developed by former public servants and data scientists, our civic engagement platform delivers real time, verified resident opinions to guide you decision making.
Create a survey, post questions and background materials, and share with your community in minutes. Get feedback you can use to improve decision-making in real time. Share results with your community to improve confidence and trustworthiness in the public process.
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Polco provides gold standard survey research for local governments.
Developed by National Research Center survey experts, our scientific benchmarking surveys deliver results local governments can rely on. Benchmarks provide comparisons with hundreds of communities around the nation. Representing the perspectives of millions of Americans, our resident opinion database is the largest of its kind. Our research is used for decision-making, budgeting, planning, performance measurement, and more.
The nation's preferred community survey, The NCS™; stands as the gold standard in community assessments.
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Learn More →Discover a broad range of research and evaluation services, tailor-made to assist government and nonprofit sector clients.
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