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This paper shows results of the questionnaire survey carried out among the inhabitants of Bielsk Podlaski concerning the localisation of preferable dwelling places. Its aim was to determine the factors that influence peoples’ feelings regarding their habitation. The paper describes housing conditions in Bielsk Podlaski in comparison with other towns in the former Białystok Voivodship and in Poland, sociodemographic and economic structure of the sample and the method of preference evaluation. It has been shown how the importance of différent elements of habitation environment varies with sociodemographic and economic characteristics of the inhabitants of this medium-size town in eastern Poland.