According to a report using 2000 census data, these are the top ten US metropolitan areas with households that do not own a car:
New York City - 42 percent
Jersey City - 30 percent
Waterbury, Connecticut - 16 percent
New Orleans - 14 percent
Philadelphia - 13 percent
Newark - 12 percent
San Francisco - 12 percent
Chicago - 11 percent
Los Angeles - 11 percent
2008/11/26
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My first reaction was that this was incorrect, but that's because I'd only seen data on this for the city proper, not the region. And of course, the region/metro is the appropriate level to look at this.
Hmm, that report infers that car ownership is preferable. In a certain way, I'm proud of the fact that I take public transit everywhere I go and only rent a car if I'm trekking off-road or far away from a city.
Yeah, I'd like to see that carless figure go a lot higher. If we want to protect against lack of mobility in the event of a disaster, we should improve the rail network. Trains can get people out of a city faster than a couple million people jumping on the highway at the same time anyway.
Who are all those losers who don't own cars?
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