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This study is to identify influential factors on membership and participation in Resident Autonomy Center as a community organization, and assess its effect on residents' collective efficacy. As influential factors, this study focuses on seven general categories such as socio-demographic characteristics, residential characteristics, neighborhood attachment, organizational climate, political efficacy, and decentralization. The logistic and general multiple regression analyses were carried out with 814 questionnaire data collected from 10 administrative Dong in Daejeon Metropolitan City. The result shows that in terms of membership, gender, age, educational level, marital status, cognitive neighborhood attachment, political efficacy, and perceived decentralization appear to be statistically significant. On the other hand, age, educational level, behavioral neighborhood attachment, organizational leadership and members' cohesion, and perceived decentralization have statistically significant influence on the level of participation. The result also shows if one is a married male with high income, there is a high possibility to become a Resident Autonomy Board member. The level of participation appears to have statistically significant effect on resident's collective efficacy. The conclusion provides some research implications.