Tag: census

October 1, 2020

In final Census survey of the before times, number of Seattle bike commuters hit an all-time high

The number of people biking as their primary mode to work hit a new high water mark in 2019, crossing the 17,000 mark for the first time in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The survey results confirm that before the total shitshow that is 2020 hit, door-to-door bike commuting was still on the steady…
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tagged: american communities survey 2019, census
September 27, 2019

Census survey: Biking, walking and transit up as commute data corrects itself + Driving alone down to 44.5%

Last year, you likely saw a story (or many) saying that biking was way down in Seattle. That was due to the annual release of the Census Bureau’s annual American Communities Survey data, which can vary quite a bit year-to-year. And the 2017 figures were way down. But as we noted, these numbers were likely…
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tagged: american communities survey, american communities survey 2018, census
September 27, 2018

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Disappointing bike commute data is ‘neither surprising nor inevitable’

Editor’s Note: Seattle Bike Blog reported yesterday on newly-released 2017 American Communities Survey data that estimates that the number of people biking to work is declining in Seattle. In response, the folks at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways wrote this guest post looking at the start-and-stop construction of a useful bike network in our city and discusses where…
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tagged: american communities survey 2017, basic bike network, census, seattle neighborhood greenways
September 26, 2018

Latest Census survey shows decline in Seattle bike commuting, especially by women

The latest Census survey does not look great for bike commuting, at least as the primary mode that people use to get to work on an everyday basis. The data is especially harsh for women biking to work, a count that has seemingly plummeted compared to recent years. The annual American Community Survey asks residents…
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tagged: american communities survey 2017, census
September 15, 2016

Census: Driving alone to work in Seattle hits new low, many more women biking to work

The number of women biking to work spiked in 2015, according to an annual survey by the Census Bureau (**see note at bottom about this data set). While some of the spike is likely statistical noise, looking at the number of women biking to work over the past ten years shows a clear, steep trend…
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tagged: american communities survey, american communities survey 2015, census
February 17, 2016

Howell: As Seattle adds jobs, how are the new workers getting there?

Editor’s Note: Every year, we write about newly-released Census data on commute modes in Seattle and communities across the country. In this guest post, Brock Howell dives even deeper, analyzing just Seattle’s new commutes. What he finds has lessons for what the city is doing right and what we need to change in order to…
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tagged: brock howell, census