|
Commuting shifts in top 10 metro areas The number of people who commuted from urban centers to suburbs increased in the 1990s. But more people still commute from the suburbs to the central county of metropolitan areas.
|
Metro area
|
Central County
|
People coming in, 2000
|
Change from '90
|
People going out, 2000
|
Change from '90
|
|
New York-No. N.J
|
New York (Manhattan)
|
1,458,790
|
2%
|
121,982
|
3%
|
|
Los Angeles-Riverside-
Orange County
|
Los Angeles
|
439,874
|
-7%
|
282,344
|
16%
|
|
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha
|
Cook
|
476,320
|
12%
|
293,363
|
32%
|
|
Washington-Baltimore
|
District of Columbia
|
481,112
|
-3%
|
70,318
|
4%
|
|
San Francisco-Oakland-
San Jose
|
San Francisco
|
265,291
|
2%
|
96,544
|
29%
|
|
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City
|
Philadelphia
|
230,383
|
-7%
|
140,094
|
10%
|
|
Boston-Worcester-
Lawrence-Lowell-Brockton
|
Suffolk
|
329,515
|
3%
|
104,922
|
-12%
|
|
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint
|
Wayne
|
233,761
|
4%
|
208,906
|
10%
|
|
Dallas-Fort Worth
|
Dallas
|
451,880
|
45%
|
133,399
|
52%
|
|
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria
|
Harris
|
288,201
|
45%
|
98,427
|
60%
|
Source: Census Bureau |
