Bike Commuting Map

[eminva]

Wow, interesting.

Based on a quick, superficial review, bike commuting rates are high in vacation spots (Florida Keys, Cape Cod) and college towns (Blacksburg, VA, Champaign, IL).

Although there are a few big counties in what I presume are less populated areas of some western states . . . wonder what’s going on there? Mountain bikers bombing down the mountain to work?

Will be interesting to see if and how this changes over time.

Liz

[Greenbelt]

So looking at my county, and assuming I’ve got the arithmetic right, we’ve got:
429,597 total commuters, and

275,220 commuting by car (drive alone)
74,562 by transit
9,038 by walking
and 1,264 by bike.

That’s a total of 360,084, which leaves a remainder 69,513 who commute either by car (not alone) or multi-modal?

I’d guess carpooling in Prince George’s county is a relatively small share of the remainder, but I don’t know. Perhaps bike/transit and walk/transit would be the remainder of the remainder? Or maybe the survey just got lots of non-responses to the question?

[CCrew]

LOL. 15 in my county bike

[Just161]

Be really careful of ACS figures that either a) describe small portions of the population of a given area (like bikers), or b) show data at a small unit of geography, or c) both. The margins of error on the ACS data can be very big – enough to render many numbers statistically insignificant.

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