[CTPP] US States Rankings for Means of Transportation to Work

TO: CTPP-News [If and when replying to e-mail, I recommend snipping out the bulk of my message....] Big new batch of data released this morning - - - The Census Bureau's data file: ProfileDataUS.zip contains the "US Summary" demographic profile pages (#1 - #4) in CSV format. The file is in the following directory on the Census Bureau's site: http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/100_and_sample_profile/0_United… It has data for the US, states, Census regions and divisions, metropolitan areas (MSAs, PMSAs, CMSAs); American Indian and Alaskan Native reservations and Homelands; and congressional districts. IT DOESN'T HAVE DATA FOR COUNTIES OR PLACES. Of course, it has no variable name record, so you need to do some work to process this file. I'll be in the process of uploading some of our analyses (XLS and CSV datasets) to our FTP site. Feel free to grab. New site directory is: ftp://ftp.abag.ca.gov/pub/mtc/census2000/DP2-4/National/ ********************************************************************************** Some state-level highlights: Yes, Michigan is #1 in drive alone share at 83.2%! (Alan, sorry, but Wyoming is 75.4% ;-) ***Top/Bottom States in Drive Alone to Work commute share: US 75.7% Michigan 83.2% Alabama 83.0% Ohio 82.8% Indiana 81.8% New Hampshire 81.8% .... New York 56.3% District of Columbia 38.4% ***Top/Bottom States in Carpool to Work commute share US 12.2% Hawaii 19.0% Puerto Rico 18.0% Alaska 15.5% Arizona 15.4% Mississippi 15.2% ... New York 9.2% Massachusetts 9.0% ***Top/Bottom States in Transit to Work commute share District of Columbia 33.2% New York 24.4% New Jersey 9.6% Massachusetts 8.7% Illinois 8.7% ... Arkansas 0.4% North Dakota 0.4% ***Top/Bottom States in Walk-to-Work Commute Share US 2.9% District of Columbia 11.8% Alaska 7.3% New York 6.2% Vermont 5.5% Montana 5.5% ... Tennessee 1.5% Alabama 1.3% ***Top/Bottom States in Work-at-Home Worker Share US 3.3% South Dakota 6.5% Montana 6.4% North Dakota 6.4% Vermont 5.7% Oregon 5.0% ... Mississippi 1.9% Puerto Rico 1.8% ***States Most Like the U.S. in terms of Means of Transportation to Work 1. Virginia 2. Colorado 3. Pennsylvania 4. Washington 5. Nevada 50. Hawaii 51. New York 52. District of Columbia ******************************************************************************* *********************************************** Charles L. Purvis, AICP Senior Transportation Planner/Analyst Metropolitan Transportation Commission 101 Eighth Street Oakland, CA 94607-4700 (510) 464-7731 (office) (510) 464-7848 (fax) www: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/ Census WWW: http://census.mtc.ca.gov/ ***********************************************