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Since the 1990s, and especially since the early 21st century, the concept of community wellbeing has grown in importance in both the academic and popular domains. In particular, scholars in Korea have witnessed the development of an extensive social scientific research programme on the determinants of happiness or wellbeing. However, research on causal relationships among factors affecting community wellbeing, which is essential to designing public policies at community level, has rarely been conducted. Under this background, this study attempts to identify causal relationships associated with factors affecting community wellbeing, based on questionnaire survey result, and puts forward practical and theoretical implications for both policy makers and scholars. The research results show that local economy is strongly and directly associated with a higher level of subjective-wellbeing at local community level, and it also affects community level indirectly, via local education level, implying that in order for the local communities to improve their community wellbeing, they need to rearrange their policy priorities, considering their local economy and local education level.