March Mapness: The Least Car-Dependent Neighborhoods in Nevada

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March Mapness continues.

Here’s the car-free commute map for Nevada. This shows the percentage of residents in each census tract who get to work on foot, bike, or transit — anything that doesn’t involve a car.

I’ll be creating a map for each state and uploading census tract boundary files so that others who are interested can make their own maps showing whatever they’d like. If you’d like your state’s map up earlier rather than later, just let me know.

Here’s a link to the full-sized map.

For those interested in embedding the map on their own site, you’ll want to go here, click the tab that says “Nevada,” pull down the tab that says “Publish,” and copy from there. The embedded map will show whatever you’re looking at when you hit “Publish” — in my case I was viewing Las Vegas, for example — so keep that in mind if you want to highlight a specific area.

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neroden@gmail · March 29, 2014

I was desperately curious about census tract 57.03 with a 51.8% walk mode share. It seems to mostly be Searchlight, Nevada -- famed for its strictly enforced 25 mph speed limit. There are a number of other micro-towns.<br /><br />I think these are going to be places where people do a lot of auto driving, but *not to work*. Their work is so close to their home it doesn&#39;t makes sense to drive there. But they probably have to drive to the next city over, hundreds of miles away, to buy a new hat.

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