Driving Alone to Work without a Car

The share of American workers who live in households with no vehicles yet nonetheless drive alone to work grew from 20.4 percent in 2014 to 20.9 percent in 2015, according to the latest American Community Survey. This growth came at the expense of slight declines in carpooling, transit, work-at-homes, and “other” (taxi, bicycle, motorcycle), while walking to work increased slightly. No one knows for certain how people with no cars drive alone to work, but most probably use employer-supplied vehicles.

You can download 2015 commuting data by numbers of vehicles in the household for the nation, states, and counties, cities and other places, and urbanized areas. For comparison, 2014 data for the nation, states, and counties, cities, and urbanized areas are also available.

Only 4.5 percent of American workers live in households with no vehicles, a share that remained stable from 2014 to 2015. Nearly a third of them are in the New York urban area. Outside of the New York area, the only places with double-digit vehicle-less households tend to be in the Boston, San Francisco-Oakland, and Washington, DC urban areas.
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In some urban areas, the share of workers in households with no vehicles who drive alone to work is higher than the share who use transit. To name a few, these include Albuquerque, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Nashville, Phoenix, Sacramento, and San Jose. This suggests that the money some of these areas have spent on transit hasn’t done much to help people who don’t have cars.

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3 Responses to Driving Alone to Work without a Car

  1. C. P. Zilliacus says:

    The Antiplanner wrote:

    In some urban areas, the share of workers in households with no vehicles who drive alone to work is higher than the share who use transit. To name a few, these include Albuquerque, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Nashville, Phoenix, Sacramento, and San Jose. This suggests that the money some of these areas have spent on transit hasn’t done much to help people who don’t have cars.

    Could Zipcar and the like be at least a partial explanation for zero car households using a motor vehicle to commute to work?

  2. ahwr says:

    https://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/files/2014/acs-32.pdf

    The ACS question about vehicle availability asks respondents, “How many automobiles, vans, and trucks of 1-ton capacity or less are kept at home for use by members of this household?” Some workers report that they have no vehicle at home, but they drive to work. This combination of responses may result from several possible scenarios. For example, a worker may use a company car, borrow another person’s car, have a private driver, have a vehicle of more than 1-ton capacity, or use a car-sharing program. It is also possible that some respondents who do not have access to a vehicle report their commute by some form of transportation, such as vanpool or taxi as a trip made by private vehicle.

  3. prk166 says:

    “Could Zipcar and the like be at least a partial explanation for zero car households using a motor vehicle to commute to work?” ~ CP

    Good point. They’re part of the equation. I’d be curious if they’re a meaningful part of it.

    My gutt reaction is they’re all of .0001%. IIRC Zip Car has a “home” for a car and you pay for it until it returns to that home. There are only a handful of homes even in metro areas of a few million people. Very few people would both live very close to a Zip Car home AND have a workplace very close to one, too.

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