A new survey from BuzzFeed News and polling firm Ipsos asked how people around the country actually feel about terrorism.

As the US presidential race — finally — hits the home stretch, several polls show people saying that terrorism is second most pressing issue the country faces right after jobs.

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BuzzFeed News worked with the polling firm Ipsos to survey 1006 Americans from across the country online about their views on terror, covering a period from August 12-15. Here's what we found:

For starters, it seems like most Americans out there don't believe that their homes face a high risk of coming under attack from terrorists.

Pollsters with Ipsos presented a list of cities in the US and abroad and asked people to characterize them as being at a high, medium, or low risk. Washington, DC had the most people sure that the city was at high risk, followed by New York City.

Meanwhile, only 10% of those surveyed said "where you live" is at a high risk of terror, the same who said they didn't know if it was or not. That number seemed to fluctuate with age, though not in a way you'd think: people 18-34 were more likely to think that their locale was at high risk of a terror attack than people 55 and older — 15% to 6%. And older people were more likely to say their home was at low risk than younger respondents — 68% to 47%.

On the international side of things, more of those surveyed said that Paris is at high risk of a terror attack than said the same about Istanbul in Turkey — 53% to 48%. And few people — only 16% — believed that Tokyo is at high risk of a terror attack.

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And despite their concerns, that fear isn't affecting people's travel plans.

We asked the people polled whether they or anyone they know has changed their travel plans because of their fears of terrorism. Only 11% of respondents said that they had — but that's still one in ten people, which seems rather high when you look at it that way. (Another 5% of people said they weren't sure if they'd changed their travel plans due to worries about terrorism, which is odd because it seems rather binary.)

Slightly more people knew people whose travel had been changed or delayed thanks to terrorism fears — 17% — though nearly as many people didn't know. (The poll also didn't capture whether it was domestic or international travel that was interrupted.)

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