Based on literature analysis and in-depth interviews, we developed the initial scale of urban community residents’ sense of gain.Then, we obtained the formal scale through item analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The formal scale includes two subscales: sense of cognitive gain and sense of emotional experience gain. The former is composed of horizontal and longitudinal sense of cognitive gains, and the latter is composed of horizontal and longitudinal sense of emotional experience gain. The results show that the final scale has high internal consistency, test-retest reliability, good structural validity and criterion validity, and can be used as a measurement tool for future related research.