In a new study looking at how people who live in racially integrated or predominantly Latino areas generally perceive their neighborhoods, an overwhelming majority said they were either extremely or very satisfied with their surroundings. But minorities reported fearing police interactions at significantly higher rates than their white neighbors.

The DC Area Survey conducted by American University looked specifically at two kinds of census tracts across the region: quadrivial, or “global,” areas where whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians make up at least 10 percent (without any group making up a majority); and Latino areas, or neighborhoods where at least one quarter of residents are Latino. Nearly a quarter of the region’s four million residents lives in either a “global” or disproportionately Latino census tract.

Across both, black residents reported that their daily lives were affected “somewhat” or “a lot” by fears of the police at a rate six times that of their white counterparts. Latinos were seven times likelier to say they were affected by such fears, including that they or their families would be arrested or questioned by law enforcement.

Fears of deportation compound the issue for Latinos, three-quarters of whom said they knew someone at risk of being deported.

The survey was released today, and first reported on by The Washington Post. The goal was to examine understudied communities, particularly integrated areas with a substantial proportion of whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians—the fastest-growing type of neighborhood in U.S. metropolitan areas, according to the study.

“As these neighborhoods have emerged, however, we know very little about how their residents perceive the processes of change occurring in their neighborhoods,” the authors write. “The novelty of these neighborhoods could reflect a potential future of sustained integration or, more pessimistically, give rise to racial tensions that could emerge in the 21st century.”

Many of the findings confirm anecdotal evidence about crime fears. While only one in 10 of the survey’s 1,222 respondents said they had been a victim of a crime (overwhelmingly property-related), 18 percent said that violent crime is a “moderate” or “serious” problem in their neighborhoods. In D.C. proper, property crime is down 5 percent and violent crime is down 3 percent from this time last year, according to MPD data.

About two-thirds of respondents said they had no contact with the police over the past year. And between 77 and 80 percent of all four racial groups believe that police are doing a good job.