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Cook County, Ill., has among the highest number of commuters coming from another county in the nation, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today in new estimates released from the American Community Survey. Nationally, 27.4 percent of workers commute outside the county where they live.
Among workers in Cook County, 505,593 live outside the county, according to 2006-2010 estimates from the American Community Survey. For example, 139,477 workers commute in from DuPage County, 93,471 from Will County and 80,833 from Lake County.
Meanwhile, 301,182 residents of Cook County leave the county for work, with 135,387 going to DuPage County, 63,520 to Lake County and 38,179 to Will County.
"It is well known that Cook County draws a lot of commuters to work. The detailed information in the American Community Survey tells us where Cook County workers are coming from, where its residents work, and how its commuting patterns compare to those of other large counties," said Brian McKenzie, a Census Bureau statistician who studies commuting. "This information shapes our understanding of the boundaries of local and regional economies, as people and goods move across the nation's transportation networks."
The American Community Survey also provides annual estimates about how commuters in Cook County travel to work and how long it takes them to get there.
View more commuting statistics for Cook County online: //factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/11_1YR/S0801/0500000US17031
The American Community Survey provides a wide range of important statistics about people and housing for every community across the nation. The results are used by everyone from town and city planners to retailers and homebuilders. The survey is the only source of local estimates for most of the 40 topics it covers, such as education, occupation, language, ancestry and housing costs for even the smallest communities. Ever since Thomas Jefferson directed the first census in 1790, the census has collected detailed characteristics about our nation's people. Questions about jobs and the economy were added 20 years later under James Madison, who said [PDF - 3.9 MB] such information would allow Congress to "adapt the public measures to the particular circumstances of the community," and over the decades, allow America "an opportunity of marking the progress of the society."
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