Public transit commuter population
Counts the number of workers aged 16 and over in the surrounding postcode whose primary means of transportation to work is public transit (bus, subway, rail, ferry, light rail, or trolley). Known or imputed for 33,893 postcodes — 99.8% of the postcodes Faraday knows.
At a glance
- Coverage today
- 99.8%
- Typical coverage
- 99.8%
- Postcodes with a value
- 33.9K
- Median
- 1 count
- Most values come
- from the area
- Latest collection
- Dec 31, 2018
Distribution
n = 33,893Share of postcodes with a known value in each band. The middle 50% falls between 1 and 52.7 count, shaded darkest.
P10 means 10% of postcodes have a value at or below this one, and P90 means 90% do. P25 and P75 bound the middle half. The median is the middle: half are below it, half above.
Coverage
Latest collection: 41,117 postcodesCoverage by state
Percentage of postcodes in each state with a value.
Coverage over time
99.8% todayShare of postcodes holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.
How we arrive at a value
Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.
- On the person — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
- From address — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
- From geography — 100%
- Estimated from other people in their postcode or region.
Coverage, in context
Where 99.8% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 61% of postcode-level attributes in the catalog
Freshness
How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of postcodes in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.
Contribution ledger
2 ingestions
1 authority contributed since Dec 2023.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-31 | 2026-09-16 | 41,117 | e2d21660… |
| 2023-12-31 | 2026-09-22 | 41,045 | 263a35d2… |
Technical details
- API name
- public_transit_commuter_population
- Category
- fig/demography
- Type · unit
- Integer · count
- Statistical type
- ratio
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- null
- Directionality
- Higher number means more public transit commuters in the surrounding postcode.
- Deprecation
- false
In a payload
{
"attributes": {
"public_transit_commuter_population": 1
}
}