The study, released by non-profit organization Stop Street Harassment (SSH) and Raliance, a collaborative committed to ending sexual violence, surveyed 2,000 people last month.
While verbal comments made up the most frequently experienced form of sexual harassment, SSH said an “alarming” number of people surveyed said they had faced more severe forms of harassment and assault.
Among all female respondents, 27 percent–or 1 in 4–said they had survived sexual assault.
Fifty-one percent said they had been purposely sexually touched or groped, 34 percent said they had been followed and 30 percent had been flashed by another person.
Among men, 7 percent, or 1 in 14, said they had been sexually assaulted.