Off the Charts: Downtown Seattle is working from home. What about your neighborhood?
In some Seattle neighborhoods, driving to work has been replaced by working from home or walking to work, but that trend doesn't hold across the city.
Seattleites are driving a lot less and traffic seems to be getting better — as Axios and The Seattle Times recently reported — but those numbers hide some key differences between Seattle neighborhoods.
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The most recent U.S. Census Bureau data from the 2022 American Community Survey reveals that driving to work is still the norm overall, but nearly 20% of Seattle neighborhoods forgo the car for other options — primarily working from home and walking to work.
Public transit is still lagging behind in popularity following a national trend post-Covid, although recent ridership numbers from King County Metro show public transit use is on the upswing. How does your neighborhood stack up?
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