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In final Census survey of the before times, number of Seattle bike commuters hit an all-time high

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

The number of people biking as their primary mode to work hit a new high water mark in 2019, crossing the 17,000 mark for the first time in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The survey results confirm that before … Continue reading →

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Census survey: Biking, walking and transit up as commute data corrects itself + Driving alone down to 44.5%

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Last year, you likely saw a story (or many) saying that biking was way down in Seattle. That was due to the annual release of the Census Bureau’s annual American Communities Survey data, which can vary quite a bit year-to-year. … Continue reading →

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Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Disappointing bike commute data is ‘neither surprising nor inevitable’

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Gordon Padelford

Editor’s Note: Seattle Bike Blog reported yesterday on newly-released 2017 American Communities Survey data that estimates that the number of people biking to work is declining in Seattle. In response, the folks at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways wrote this guest post looking … Continue reading →

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Latest Census survey shows decline in Seattle bike commuting, especially by women

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

The latest Census survey does not look great for bike commuting, at least as the primary mode that people use to get to work on an everyday basis. The data is especially harsh for women biking to work, a count … Continue reading →

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Census: Driving alone to work in Seattle hits new low, many more women biking to work

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Tom Fucoloro

The number of women biking to work spiked in 2015, according to an annual survey by the Census Bureau (**see note at bottom about this data set). While some of the spike is likely statistical noise, looking at the number … Continue reading →

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Howell: As Seattle adds jobs, how are the new workers getting there?

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Brock Howell

Editor’s Note: Every year, we write about newly-released Census data on commute modes in Seattle and communities across the country. In this guest post, Brock Howell dives even deeper, analyzing just Seattle’s new commutes. What he finds has lessons for … Continue reading →

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Seattle’s bike-to-work rate faces challengers from big cities in all corners of the US

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Tom Fucoloro

The 2014 Census data on work commute modes is out, and it shows that biking to work in Seattle remains somewhere between 3.1 and 4.3 percent. The survey (** see disclaimer about the survey below) has returned biking numbers within … Continue reading →

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DC, New Orleans blow past Seattle in latest Census bike commute data

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

Cities from the East Coast, the West Coast, the Midwest and even the Deep South all passed Seattle in bike commuting in 2013, according to Census survey data just released. Seattle fell all the way from number three to number … Continue reading →

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Where people walk, bike, take transit and drive alone in Seattle and King County

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

The new Census commute data visualization tool is awesome. The data is not new. It’s the same dataset we analyzed last fall when we discovered that fewer than half of Seattle residents drives alone to work. But the new visualization … Continue reading →

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Seattle tops the West Coast in walking and biking to work

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Tom Fucoloro

Census data divers at the University of Oklahoma have crunched the data and determined that a higher percentage of Seattle’s workforce walks or bikes to work than any other major West Coast city in the nation. An impressive 14 percent … Continue reading →

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Not just Seattle: King County is also driving less + A look at biking rates around Puget Sound

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Tom Fucoloro

Get ready for a little data overload. I’ve been swimming through Census data ever since the 2012 American Communities Survey data came out and showed that biking, walking and transit use in Seattle is way up. But what about the … Continue reading →

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Times: Seattle joins ‘select group’ of US cities where fewer than 50% of residents drive alone to work

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Tom Fucoloro

Seattle is one of only five large US cities where fewer than half of residents drive alone to get to work. Gene Balk at the Seattle Times followed up on our Census reporting to note that by crossing this 50 … Continue reading →

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Census data confirms steady climb in Seattle bike commuting, driving alone now below 50%

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Tom Fucoloro

Bike commuting is at an all-time high in Seattle and continues to climb, according to Census survey data. Perhaps a bigger symbolic moment has been reached, however: Driving alone to work is now below 50 percent in the city of … Continue reading →

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Bike commute numbers unchanged in 2011 Census survey

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Tom Fucoloro

Bike commute numbers remained relatively unchanged in 2011 compared to 2010, according to newly released data from the Census Bureau’s annual American Communities Survey. The percentage of commuters choosing to bike came in at 3.5 percent,* one tenth of a … Continue reading →

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Census: Seattle bike commuting rises 22% in 1 year, city claims #2 spot in US

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Tom Fucoloro

Seattle rose to the number two spot among major US cities in terms of the number of people commuting to work by bike in 2010. The percentage of people using a bicycle as their primary mode of getting to work … Continue reading →

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