Nov 07 2007
Top 101 US Cities, Counties and ZIP codes lists
If you are a data geek like me you will find this a real time-sink.
Some examples:
- Top 101 cities people commute into. Troy is #3 in the nation, Greenville, SC (!) is #1. Southfield is #10, Dearborn #28, Ann Arbor #75.
- Top 101 stingiest ZIP codes. Texas seems to have the most.
- Top 101 cities with the most Masters and Doctorate degrees. Few suprises here. Ann Arbor is #7, West Bloomfield is #34.
- Top 101 cities with highest crime index. East St. Louis, IL is is #1 by a large margin, Detroit and Flint are #13 and #14, respectively.
- Top 101 cities for drinking. Austin, TX is the place to be. No Michigan locale made the cut.
Maybe they don’t have any good accountants in Texas?
I’m surprised about Ann Arbor only being #75. I remember hearing somewhere that a vast majority of folks who work in A2 can’t afford to live here (and, those of us that live here, often need more lucrative jobs elsewhere). As I drive out of A2 to Detroit, I see tons of cars coming into town, so much that I feel bad for the folks sitting there while I cruise past on the opposite side of the road.
Troy and Southfield make sense though. I grew up in Troy and it always had a lot of traffic!
I thnk what is going on here is that the site is measuring “largest positive percentage daily daytime population change due to commuting”. In other words, it is measuring how many more people commute into the city than there are people who commute out of the city.
There are a lot of A2 residents who work outside of the city, commuting to car company jobs in the Detroit suburbs, for example. Given that , it isn’t that surprising that A2 is #75.
Got it. That makes sense….