USA Journey to Work:
National Data from 1960: Summarized
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Total |
Personal
Vehicle
(Primarily
Automobile) |
Transit |
Walk |
Other |
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DATA |
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1960 |
64,655,805 |
41,368,062 |
7,806,932 |
6,416,343 |
9,064,468 |
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1970 |
76,852,389 |
59,722,550 |
6,810,458 |
5,689,819 |
4,629,562 |
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1980 |
96,617,296 |
81,258,496 |
6,175,061 |
5,413,248 |
3,770,491 |
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1990 |
115,070,274 |
99,592,932 |
6,069,589 |
4,488,886 |
4,918,867 |
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2000 |
128,279,228 |
112,736,101 |
6,067,703 |
3,758,982 |
5,716,442 |
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MARKET SHARE |
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1960 |
100.0% |
64.0% |
12.1% |
9.9% |
14.0% |
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1970 |
100.0% |
77.7% |
8.9% |
7.4% |
6.0% |
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1980 |
100.0% |
84.1% |
6.4% |
5.6% |
3.9% |
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1990 |
100.0% |
86.5% |
5.3% |
3.9% |
4.3% |
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2000 |
100.0% |
87.9% |
4.7% |
2.9% |
4.5% |
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MARKET SHARE CHANGE |
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1960-1970 |
0.0% |
21.5% |
-26.6% |
-25.4% |
-57.0% |
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1970-1980 |
0.0% |
8.2% |
-27.9% |
-24.3% |
-35.2% |
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1980-1990 |
0.0% |
2.9% |
-17.5% |
-30.4% |
9.5% |
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1990-2000 |
0.0% |
1.5% |
-10.3% |
-24.9% |
4.2% |
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1960-2000 |
0.0% |
37.4% |
-60.8% |
-70.5% |
-68.2% |
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NUMERIC CHANGE |
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1960-1970 |
12,196,584 |
18,354,488 |
(996,474) |
(726,524) |
(4,434,906) |
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1970-1980 |
19,764,907 |
21,535,946 |
(635,397) |
(276,571) |
(859,071) |
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1980-1990 |
18,452,978 |
18,334,436 |
(105,472) |
(924,362) |
1,148,376 |
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1990-2000 |
13,208,954 |
13,143,169 |
(1,886) |
(729,904) |
797,575 |
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1960-2000 |
63,623,423 |
71,368,039 |
(1,739,229) |
(2,657,361) |
(3,348,026) |
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Note: Car-pool data not collected before 1980. |
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Data from US Census Bureau |
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