[CTPP] re: Walking to Work in Alaska

Jon: My response is to the listserv since I think it may be useful to other analysts looking at their own state. My now favorite site is at: http://censtats.census.gov/pub/Profiles.shtml I examined the PDF profiles for both Anchorage and the State of Alaska, and you are right: Anchorage = 2.7 percent walk to work (131,228 total workers at work) Alaska = 7.3 percent walk to work (290,597 total workers at work) Not Anchorage = 11.2 percent walk to work (159,369 total workers at work) (BTW, "Not Anchorage" is not a place, but a residual calculation ;-) It's then not to your surprise that the majority of the walk commuters in Alaska reside outside of Anchorage. The bottom line is that state rankings are cool, but the within state variations are the items of interest to your Governor, your State Transportation Commissioner, etc. cheers, Chuck Purvis explain why the walk to work rate is so high in Alaska. Anchorage, which makes up nearly half of the State's population, isn't especially known for its dense compact development. The remainder of Alaskan towns are much smaller than Anchorage and are no doubt much more walkable. It would be interesting to diaagregate the walk to work figures for Alaska in order to determine its source.