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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Urban Aff. 2011 Aug 7;33(3):345–366. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9906.2011.00551.x

Table 2.

Employment, Car Ownership and Commuting Mode by Low-Income Status

Low-income Households Non-low-income Households
Percent of regional population 19.2% 80.8%
Characteristics of households
 Contain one or more workers* 81.0% 91.4%
 Mean number of workers* 1.14 1.69
 Car ownership (%)* 78.9% 96.2%
 Mean number of cars* 1.22 2.03
Characteristics of workers
Commuting Mode
 Drives alone* 62.9% 72.3%
 Carpools* 13.1% 11.1%
 Public transportation* 12.8% 6.9%
 Other commute mode* 11.2% 9.3%
Mean commute time in minutes* 24.6 27.5
*

Significantly different at a 95% confidence interval

Source: Authors’ calculations using American Community Survey data, N=34,106 individuals in 14,911 households, weighted to represent Puget Sound Area population