Tag: census

September 17, 2015

Seattle’s bike-to-work rate faces challengers from big cities in all corners of the US

The 2014 Census data on work commute modes is out, and it shows that biking to work in Seattle remains somewhere between 3.1 and 4.3 percent. The survey (** see disclaimer about the survey below) has returned biking numbers within this margin of error since 2010. That’s about 14,200 Seattle residents biking to work all…
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tagged: american communities survey, american communities survey 2014, census
September 18, 2014

DC, New Orleans blow past Seattle in latest Census bike commute data

Cities from the East Coast, the West Coast, the Midwest and even the Deep South all passed Seattle in bike commuting in 2013, according to Census survey data just released. Seattle fell all the way from number three to number six on the list of large US cities. It was pretty clear last year when…
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tagged: american communities survey 2013, census, new orleans, washington dc
May 9, 2014

Where people walk, bike, take transit and drive alone in Seattle and King County

The new Census commute data visualization tool is awesome. The data is not new. It’s the same dataset we analyzed last fall when we discovered that fewer than half of Seattle residents drives alone to work. But the new visualization tool is super cool and easy to use. Give it a try! Here are some…
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tagged: census, king county, oran viriyincy
November 5, 2013

Seattle tops the West Coast in walking and biking to work

Census data divers at the University of Oklahoma have crunched the data and determined that a higher percentage of Seattle’s workforce walks or bikes to work than any other major West Coast city in the nation. An impressive 14 percent of Seattle residents walk or bike to their jobs on an average day, just barely…
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tagged: census, university of oklahoma
September 25, 2013

Not just Seattle: King County is also driving less + A look at biking rates around Puget Sound

Get ready for a little data overload. I’ve been swimming through Census data ever since the 2012 American Communities Survey data came out and showed that biking, walking and transit use in Seattle is way up. But what about the rest of the region? As several readers have pointed out, Seattle’s plummeting rate of driving…
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tagged: american communities survey 2012, census, king county, port townsend, vashon
September 23, 2013

Times: Seattle joins ‘select group’ of US cities where fewer than 50% of residents drive alone to work

Seattle is one of only five large US cities where fewer than half of residents drive alone to get to work. Gene Balk at the Seattle Times followed up on our Census reporting to note that by crossing this 50 percent threshold, Seattle joins a “select group” of car-lite American cities. Among the 50 most…
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tagged: census, gene balk, seattle times