No wonder so many people in New York seem to be coming or going. Manhattan draws more commuters than any other county in the country, while more people leave Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx to work than any other counties.
Seven in 10 people employed in Manhattan commute from another county. That’s twice the share as in Dallas, which ranks second among counties with large numbers of workers who commute to work there.
Also, more workers commute from New Jersey to New York (nearly 400,000) than travel between any other states.
New York leads all states in the share of both residents and all workers who spend at least an hour commuting to work each way. Among New York State residents, 16.2 percent said they traveled an hour or more to and from work, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, as did 18.2 percent of workers in the state overall.
The metropolitan New York area was second to SanFrancisco, however, in the proportion of workers with long commutes. The share traveling an hour or more from Suffolk County to Manhattan ranked third, behind commuters to Los Angeles from two California counties.
In Manhattan, twice as many workers commute from another county (1.6 million) as live there (830,000). Among Manhattan residents, 130,000 travel to work in another county, more than half of them to the Bronx, Brooklyn or Queens.
Among residents of Brooklyn, 391,000 commute to Manhattan; 370,000 in Queens and 191,000 in the Bronx make the commute.
