Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton Metro
Car: 81.5% (9.9% carpooled)
Non-Car: 18.5%
Transit: 6.1%
Bike: 2.1%
Walk: 3.2%
Other: 7.1% (6.1% worked from home)
This puts Portland barely out of the top 15 (#15 was 19.2% non-car), but look at the area this includes:
If we look at just Portland, here's how the statistics change:
Portland
Car: 70.1% (8.5% carpool)
Non-Car: 29.9%
Transit: 11.5%
Walk: 5.6%
Bike: 5.8%
Other: 6.9% (5.9% worked from home)
That would put us at #2. I think the honest answer is somewhere in-between.
It would be interesting to see what these stats look like if you limited the geographic area to just the major cities (Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Vancouver, Gresham, Milwaukie, Oregon City, etc).
Also, I would prefer to see the ratings include the carpoolers as non-car (i.e. instead of Car/Non-Car it should be SOV/Non-SOV).
2 comments:
I think youd find that to be the case in may of the cities, PDX would bump back down if we only included Seattle for example, but its really how the region as a whole gets around that paints the true picture.
The problem is the "regions" as they're divided up by the Census aren't particularly useful for quoting statistics like this.
Most people wouldn't consider McMinnville (much less Willamina) to be part of Portland's metro area.
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