US Commuting (Nation, State, MSA, County, ZIP)

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Description

This dataset contains commuting data (employment by class of worker, year, place of residence and place of work). Data is available at the nation, state, MSA, county, and zip code levels, from 2001 to the current year.

When requesting MSA codes or ZIP codes as the area constraint in a query, the code must be prepended by MSA or ZIP, respectively (e.g. for MSA code 10540, use 'MSA10540').

Use Cases

Questions answered by this dataset:

• How many people who work in the zip code area for downtown Seattle live outside of that area?
• How many people who work in the Kansas City MSA live in Missouri?
• How many people who live in LA County work outside of Californa this year compared to previous years?

Metrics

• Jobs: The number of jobs in the area.

Filters

• ClassOfWorker
• PlaceOfResidence (Nation, State, MSA, County, ZIP)
• PlaceOfWork (Nation, State, MSA, County, ZIP)
• Year

Core LMI Metadata