Today the Census Bureau released the single-year 2023 American Community Survey data.

The R-package “tidycensus” works without a hitch.

Attached is a national summary of workers by means of transportation to work. Nationally we are seeing a 1.2 percent increase in workers by all means of transportation, 2022 to 2023; an 8 percent decrease in workers usually working-at-home; a 14.4 percent increase in transit commuters, and a 5.2 percent increase in carpooling-to-work.

Work-at-home shares have fallen steadily since a high in 2021 at 17.9 percent. 

I’ve also provided a link (albeit behind a paywall) with a San Francisco Chronicle article on “How San Francisco Residents Got to Work”. Journalists, and great data journalists like at the Chronicle, have early “embargoed data” access to Census Bureau data. Some very nice graphics, tables, and discussions with local professors.

Chuck Purvis.