Commuters by Work Tract

LODES — total people commuting into each census tract, nationwide

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Year

2023

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Year A 2002

Year B 2023

⚠ Federal employment data not available before 2010. Part of this change may reflect that data-source addition rather than real growth — especially near federal employment hubs (military bases, federal agency offices).

Only fill tracts meeting criteria

Change is commuters |x| (either direction)

Combine with

Change is % |x| (either direction)

Industry

All industries Goods producing Trade / transport / utilities All other services

Federal jobs (JT04)

All jobs Exclude Only federal

Federal employment (JT04) only enters LODES in 2010. "Exclude" drops it in every year, so pre-/post-2010 years are on the same basis. "Only federal" isolates it (computed as All minus Exclude) — pre-2010 years show no data, since JT04 didn't exist yet.

Metric

Raw count Metro percentile

Percentile rank of this tract's workers among all tracts in the same metro area (2020 CBSA boundaries, applied to every year). Tracts outside any metro area are gray.

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Exponent 2.0

>1 stretches high values apart (emphasizes outliers) · <1 compresses them (emphasizes the middle of the distribution)

Loading map… Click any census tract for its commuter total and nearby industrial facilities (TRI).

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Industrial facilities (TRI)

EPA Toxics Release Inventory, large chemical-release facilities only. "Closed" = EPA's own flag; open/close years are inferred from reporting gaps and are candidates, not confirmed events.

Commuters into tract, 2023

LODES 2002-2023 · JT00 + JT04 federal (2010+)

LODES is job-based, not trip-based: it has no travel or telework data. A worker is counted as commuting to their job's address whether they go in 5 days a week or work from home full time.