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Public transportation commuters constituted about 5 percent of all workers in the United States in 2019. Though public transportation was a relatively uncommon method of traveling to work in the United States as a whole, it played a prominent role in certain places. This report describes the status of public transportation commuting in the United States, beginning with the distribution of public transportation commuters across different transit modes, proceeding to summarize key geographic and demographic patterns, and concluding with a glimpse at historical trends in public transportation.
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Publication | October 2018
The Population 65 Years and Older in the United States
This report provides a look at selected demographic, social, housing and economic characteristics of the 65 years and older population in the United States.
Publication | June 02, 2020
Those Who Served: America's Veterans From World War II to the War on Terror
This report looks at the roughly 18 million Americans, or about 7 percent of the adult population, who were veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces in 2018.
Publication | April 21, 2021
Computer and Internet Use in the United States, 2018
This report highlights computer and internet use data for various demographic and geographic characteristics using estimates from the 2018 ACS.
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