{"id":834,"date":"2009-10-27T21:46:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cityblock.wordpress.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2009-10-27T21:46:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:46:49","slug":"acs-answering-my-own-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/27\/acs-answering-my-own-question\/","title":{"rendered":"ACS – Answering my own question"},"content":{"rendered":"

(hat tip to Dr. Gridlock<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

In earlier<\/a> posts<\/a>, I wondered what DC’s regional transit data looks like – and with the release of the 2006-2008 three-year estimates from the American Community Survey<\/a>, we have some answers.<\/p>\n

Data is available for the Washington, DC urbanized area.\u00a0 That area looks like this:<\/p>\n

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So, that includes a lot of stuff, and a whole lot of suburbia.<\/p>\n

The transportation data is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
COMMUTING TO WORK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Workers 16 years and over<\/td>\n2,221,629<\/td>\n+\/-8,331<\/td>\n2,221,629<\/td>\n(X)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Car, truck, or van — drove alone<\/td>\n1,415,834<\/td>\n+\/-9,036<\/td>\n63.7%<\/td>\n+\/-0.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Car, truck, or van — carpooled<\/td>\n237,724<\/td>\n+\/-5,008<\/td>\n10.7%<\/td>\n+\/-0.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Public transportation (excluding taxicab)<\/td>\n363,334<\/td>\n+\/-5,319<\/td>\n16.4%<\/td>\n+\/-0.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Walked<\/td>\n77,067<\/td>\n+\/-2,795<\/td>\n3.5%<\/td>\n+\/-0.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other means<\/td>\n33,023<\/td>\n+\/-1,979<\/td>\n1.5%<\/td>\n+\/-0.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Worked at home<\/td>\n94,647<\/td>\n+\/-3,018<\/td>\n4.3%<\/td>\n+\/-0.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

So, 63.7% of the region’s workers commute in a single-occupant vehicle, with 16.4% using transit.\u00a0 For the same three year window (2006-2008), DC’s stats look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
COMMUTING TO WORK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Workers 16 years and over<\/td>\n293,532<\/td>\n+\/-3,568<\/td>\n293,532<\/td>\n(X)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Car, truck, or van — drove alone<\/td>\n108,373<\/td>\n+\/-3,363<\/td>\n36.9%<\/td>\n+\/-1.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Car, truck, or van — carpooled<\/td>\n19,121<\/td>\n+\/-1,591<\/td>\n6.5%<\/td>\n+\/-0.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Public transportation (excluding taxicab)<\/td>\n108,687<\/td>\n+\/-2,469<\/td>\n37.0%<\/td>\n+\/-0.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Walked<\/td>\n34,455<\/td>\n+\/-2,033<\/td>\n11.7%<\/td>\n+\/-0.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other means<\/td>\n9,421<\/td>\n+\/-1,023<\/td>\n3.2%<\/td>\n+\/-0.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Worked at home<\/td>\n13,475<\/td>\n+\/-1,451<\/td>\n4.6%<\/td>\n+\/-0.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

36.9% drove alone, while 37.0% used transit.<\/p>\n

Note that this is the rolling three-year sample, so the data is slightly different from the 2008 ACS data released earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(hat tip to Dr. Gridlock) In earlier posts, I wondered what DC’s regional transit data looks like – and with the release of the 2006-2008 three-year estimates from the American Community Survey, we have some answers. Data is available for the Washington, DC urbanized area.\u00a0 That area looks like this: So, that includes a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-demographics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pHcGQ-ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}