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It depends.

Our front door stays locked with a dead bolt all the time whether we are home or away, night or day.

The door from our garage to our house stays locked too.

Our back door is locked and dead bolted at night but during the day my wife doesn't bother locking it because our son goes in and out to play in the back yard. We have two large dogs back there that are both VERY protective so I'm not too concerned about anyone going back there. Besides, the gates have combination locks on them so someone would have to jump the 6' fence to get in the back yard (not hard to do of course, but I imagine it would be scary to see two angry dogs come running around the corner of the house just as you're getting over the fence).