2009-2013 5-Year American Community Survey: Commuting Flows

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Version:  View help for Version V2

Name File Type Size Last Modified
MultiyearACSAccuracyofData2013.pdf application/pdf 343 KB 08/08/2025 07:58:AM
Table-1-County-to-County-Commuting-Flows--ACS-2009-2013.csv text/csv 3.8 MB 05/05/2017 12:07:PM
Table-1-County-to-County-Commuting-Flows--ACS-2009-2013.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 11 MB 05/05/2017 12:07:PM
Table-2-County-to-County-Commuting-Flows-by-Travel-Mode--ACS-2009-2013.csv text/csv 6 MB 05/05/2017 12:07:PM
Table-2-County-to-County-Commuting-Flows-by-Travel-Mode--ACS-2009-2013.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 8.9 MB 05/05/2017 12:07:PM
Table-3-MCD-and-County-Commuting-Flows--ACS-2009-2013.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 54.4 MB 05/05/2017 12:07:PM
Table-4-MCD-and-County-Commuting-Flows-by-Travel-Mode--ACS-2009-2013.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 33.4 MB 05/05/2017 12:07:PM

Project Citation: 

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. 2009-2013 5-Year American Community Survey: Commuting Flows. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-08-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100616V2

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title 2009-2013 5-Year American Community Survey: Commuting Flows
Summary:  View help for Summary Among other questions related to the work commute, the American Community Survey (ACS) asks respondents about their primary workplace location. Workplace information is crucial for understanding the degree of interconnectedness among our nation's communities and it shapes the contours of metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas. The U.S. Census Bureau's publicly available ACS tables present information about where people work by both residence-based and workplace-based data products, but information about the residence/workplace relationship is not provided as an origin-destination combination. A more complex story about commuting patterns emerges when residence location and workplace location are coupled, generating a "commuting flow." This page provides commuting flow data from the decennial Census and ACS, some of which has been produced for the purpose of redefining metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas.

From https://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/data/commutingflows.html as of March 29, 2017.

This archive contains the files derived by the Census Bureau from the 2009-2013 5-year American Community Survey. XLSX files are provided as downloaded from the Census Bureau on March 29, 2017.

File format conversions (XLSX -> CSV) were performed by Lars Vilhuber, Labor Dynamics Institute, Cornell University.

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Microdata: Yes
Level of Analysis: Workers
Variables Present: Yes
File Layout: .csv, .xslx
Codebook: Yes 
Methods: Yes
Weights (with appropriate documentation): Yes
Publications: No
Aggregate Data: No
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Cornell University (Labor Dynamics Institute)
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/data/commutingflows.html

Scope of Project

Universe:  View help for Universe Workers 16 years (members of the Armed Forces and civilians) who were at work during the reference week. 

Methodology

Sampling:  View help for Sampling For more information on sampling and estimation methods, confidentiality protection, and sampling and nonsampling errors, see http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/tech_docs/accuracy/MultiyearACSAccuracyofData2013.pdf.
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Workers
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit Counties of the United States

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