2017 Census ACS Commute Stats for central cities (state, compared, Atlanta)

[mhays25]

Central Cities – 2017 ACS and change from 2012-2016 ACS, ranked by "drive alone" in reverse order:

Notes: Core cities with larger boundaries will obviously skew poorly compared to cities with tight boundaries. The 2017 stats can be anomalous due to small sample sizes...an "increase" might not be an increase and vice versa. All numbers are my quick compilations and arithmetic based on multiple Census Dept. pages.

New York:
Driving alone: 22.3% (up 0.3)
Transit: 55.8% (down 0.8)
Walking: 10.1% (up 0.1)
Biking: 1.3% (up 0.2)

San Francisco:
Driving alone: 32.4% (down 2.6)
Transit: 34.7% (up 1.1)
Walking: 12.0% (up 1.4)
Biking: 3.1% (down 1.0)

DC – 2017 not available...only 2012-2016:
Driving alone: 33.7%
Transit: 36.8%
Walking: 13.3%
Biking: 4.3%

Boston:
Driving alone: 37.6% (down 1.3)
Transit: 35.0% (up 1.4)
Walking: 14.3% (down 0.5)
Biking: 2.2% (down 0.1)

Seattle:
Driving alone: 47.2% (down 2.0)
Transit: 22.9% (up 2.1)
Walking: 10.4% (up 0.4)
Biking: 2.8% (down 1.0)

Chicago:
Driving alone: 48.6% (down 0.9)
Transit: 28.3% (up 0.5)
Walking: 6.6% (down 0.1)
Biking: 1.7% (up 0.1)

Philadelphia:
Driving alone: 51.1% (up 0.3)
Transit: 23.8% (down 1.9)
Walking: 8.4% (up 0.2)
Biking: 2.6% (up 0.5)

Pittsburgh:
Driving alone: 56.6% (up 0.6)
Transit: 17.7% (up 0.6)
Walking: 10.8% (down 0.3)
Biking: 1.4% (down 0.6)

Portland:
Driving alone: 56.7% (down 1.1)
Transit: 12.6% (up 0.5)
Walking: 5.7% (down 0.3)
Biking: 6.3% (down 0.2)

Baltimore:
Driving alone: 59.7% (down 0.1)
Transit: 18.8% (up 0.4)
Walking: 6.6% (down 0.1)
Biking: 1.1% (up 0.3)

Minneapolis:
Driving alone: 61.4% (up 0.1)
Transit: 13.2% (up 0.1)
Walking: 6.5% (down 0.7)
Biking: 3.9% (down 0.4)

Atlanta:
Driving alone: 66.5% (down 2.1)
Transit: 11.1% (up 1.1)
Walking: 4.6% (same)
Biking: 1.2% (up 0.4)

Denver:
Driving alone: 67.9% (down 2.3)
Transit: 6.7% (down 0.1)
Walking: 4.4% (down 0.1)
Biking: 2.2% (down 0.1)

Miami:
Driving alone: 68.1% (down 2.1)
Transit: 10.1% (down 1.1)
Walking: 3.5% (down 0.7)
Biking: 0.9% (down 0.1)

Los Angeles:
Driving alone: 69.7% (up 1.2)
Transit: 8.9% (down 1.1)
Walking: 3.3% (down 0.2)
Biking: 0.9% (up 0.3)

Cleveland:
Driving alone: 70.8% (up 1.3)
Transit: 8.6% (down 2.0)
Walking: 3.9% (down 1.4)
Biking: 0.4% (down 0.3)

Phoenix:
Driving alone: 74.1% (down 0.8)
Transit: 2.8% (down 0.6)
Walking: 1.6% (down 0.2)
Biking: 0.8% (up 0.1)

San Diego:
Driving alone: 75.4% (up 0.6
Transit: 4.0% (up 0.1)
Walking: 2.8% (down 0.3)
Biking: 1.0% (same)

Dallas:
Drove alone: 75.9% (down 0.4)
Transit: 4.0% (down 0.3)
Walking: 2.2% (up 0.3)
Biking: 0.3% (up 0.1)

Houston:
Driving alone: 77.0% (up 0.7)
Transit: 4.0% (same)
Walking: 2.3% (up 0.2%)
Biking: 0.3% (down 0.2)

[the resident09]

Portland #1 in biking, DC #2.

[speagles84]

Pennsylvania, the only state with 2 in the top 10

[mhays25]

A couple more cities:

Detroit:
Driving alone: 71.0% (up 2.2)
Transit: 6.8% (down 1.4)
Walking: 3.5% (down 0.2)
Biking: 0.7% (same)

St. Louis:
Driving alone: 72.0% (up 0.4)
Transit: 8.2% (down 1.6)
Walking: 4.6% (up 0.3)
Biking: 0.8% (down 0.1)

PS, this only attempts to rank the cities on the list. I didn't look at the others.

[RocketSci]

A couple more "legacy" cities:

Buffalo:
Driving alone: 67.3% (up 1.5)
Transit: 12.3% (down 1.0)
Walking: 5.3% (up 0.4)
Biking: 1.2% (up 0.2)

Rochester:
Driving alone: 70.1% (down 0.4)
Transit: 6.1% (down 3.9)
Walking: 6.3% (down 0.5)
Biking: 1.0% (down 0.1)

[Ben Around]

Kudos to Minneapolis/St Paul for coming in 3rd among the lot! Who says you can't ride your bike to work through snow, ice and freezing temperatures!

[mjlo]

I can't figure out where to view this information. OP can you please post a link?

Thanks

[Maintainschaos]

Originally Posted by Ben Around

Kudos to Minneapolis/St Paul for coming in 3rd among the lot! Who says you can't ride your bike to work through snow, ice and freezing temperatures!

You mean third in percentage biking...not 3rd among the lot. The vast majority of commuters in the Twin Cities are driving, making it overall low among the lot.

[Spade]

This is where LA, Houston, Dallas, and possibly Phoenix physical size hurts them when it pertains to this topic seeing as how much of the city limits are car centric suburbia. For instance, with Houston, I am thinking that if the city was just inside the loop, the driving share would still be high, but the bike, transit, and walk share would be higher. I don't know what they call the older sections of LA but the driving share would likely be even lower if you radiate it from downtown.

[mhays25]

Mjlo -- The Census Department website is a nightmare.

This allows you to look at certain tables for the 2017 ACS. https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/...html?refresh=t. You can also get there from here. https://www.census.gov/programs-surv.../subjects.html

This allows you to look at a different set of tables for the 2012-2016 compiled ACS. https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/...es/index.xhtml