Emerging Commuting and Urban Development Trends in the New Millennium: Six-County Chicago Area, 1970 - 2008

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The Census Bureau collects information on where we live and where we work. Using this data the authors show that from 1970 to 2008 the pattern of commuting continues to change in the six-county metropolitan area, as population and jobs increase in collar counties. Several existing trends have continued, some new ones have emerged and others have demonstrated a marked shift. This report provides a brief overview of the most noteworthy of these changes in commuting since 2000 and interprets these changes by contrasting them with the previous forty years (since 1970). It highlights a substantial shift in bedroom communities, where the number of workers outnumbers the number of jobs. All of the collar counties have experienced major increases in commutes into the county. DuPage County again has more commuters coming to the county then leaving it, now by more than 90,000 workers. Lake County also has more commuting to the county than from the county. Job growth in the collar counties contributes to the continued trend of cross county border commuting. Several new trends emerged: travel times are no longer growing in all counties; job growth exceeded the rate of increases in previous decades; increases in population and commuters in the six-county region were nearly equivalent at approximately 350,000; in terms of population and job growth as well as changes in commuting time, Cook and DuPage now together constitute the metropolitan core; and commuting to Cook County from all counties is no longer growing.

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