[CTPP] Michigan #1 in Drive Alone Share

TO: CTPP-News It looks like Michigan is still the number one state in the union in terms of share of commuters driving alone to work. Data released this morning (6/3/02) shows that the Michigan drive alone share is 83.2 percent (compares to 81.5 percent in 1990.) Today's data release also shows Ohio with a very high drive alone share, at 82.8 percent (comparing to 80.3 percent in 1990). I don't think any states have drive alone shares higher than Michigan or Ohio, but we're still missing data for five states (Arkansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming). That data will be out about 1:00 PM Eastern time on Tuesday, along with US totals. Very good article on increasing commute times in this past Friday's Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0531/p01s01-ussc.html Alan Pisarski, Tim Lomax and the usual suspects are interviewed. Interesting to note that the Monitor didn't fall into the trap of reporting on anecdotal commutes. I'll be interested in how the Wall Street Journal and the Monitor and other national papers handle this information once the balance of data is released Tuesday.... Alan: what's this about a 12 percent drop in Virginia carpooling? Re-cap of other relevant Census sites: Press release site for demographic profiles: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2002/demoprofiles.html Best gateway to acquire demographic profiles in PDF format: http://censtats.census.gov/pub/Profiles.shtml FTP site for the Demographic Profile datasets: http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/100_and_sample_profile/ (I'll be looking at the "All States" sub-directory to have all national, state, metro area and place-level data perhaps by Tuesday?) Metropolitan Data Shack (site with selected 1990 Census data for all 284 metro areas and 50 states) http://home.earthlink.net/~clpurvis/metrodat/ Chuck Purvis, MTC 27-28.