{
  "alt": "Line chart with three lines for 2010, 2015 and 2019, one for each county type, giving the share of resident jobs located in another county. The line for the nonmetropolitan counties with smaller towns or none is highest, the metropolitan line is lowest, and all three rise slightly over the period.",
  "caption": "The line for the nonmetropolitan counties with smaller towns or none is highest and the metropolitan line lowest in every year shown, and each line rises between 2010 and 2019. Each point is the pooled share of resident jobs located outside the home county, with a 95% interval from a bootstrap over states.",
  "data": [
    {
      "conf_high": 46.89,
      "conf_low": 39.37,
      "estimate": 42.95,
      "jobs": 105160058,
      "n_counties": 1171,
      "series": "Metropolitan",
      "year": 2010
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 50.45,
      "conf_low": 46.3,
      "estimate": 48.58,
      "jobs": 13636739,
      "n_counties": 894,
      "series": "Nonmetropolitan, larger towns",
      "year": 2010
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 61.81,
      "conf_low": 56.61,
      "estimate": 59.46,
      "jobs": 4091694,
      "n_counties": 1034,
      "series": "Nonmetropolitan, smaller towns or none",
      "year": 2010
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 47.03,
      "conf_low": 39.24,
      "estimate": 42.87,
      "jobs": 115867165,
      "n_counties": 1171,
      "series": "Metropolitan",
      "year": 2015
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 51.16,
      "conf_low": 46.9,
      "estimate": 49.24,
      "jobs": 14121233,
      "n_counties": 894,
      "series": "Nonmetropolitan, larger towns",
      "year": 2015
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 62.95,
      "conf_low": 57.67,
      "estimate": 60.51,
      "jobs": 4083810,
      "n_counties": 1034,
      "series": "Nonmetropolitan, smaller towns or none",
      "year": 2015
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 48.26,
      "conf_low": 40.33,
      "estimate": 44.09,
      "jobs": 123293844,
      "n_counties": 1171,
      "series": "Metropolitan",
      "year": 2019
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 53.45,
      "conf_low": 49.13,
      "estimate": 51.46,
      "jobs": 14490434,
      "n_counties": 894,
      "series": "Nonmetropolitan, larger towns",
      "year": 2019
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 64.84,
      "conf_low": 59.55,
      "estimate": 62.44,
      "jobs": 4179253,
      "n_counties": 1034,
      "series": "Nonmetropolitan, smaller towns or none",
      "year": 2019
    }
  ],
  "id": "commuting_out_of_county",
  "notes": [
    "Alaska and Massachusetts are left out of every year, so every year covers the same states. Alaska has no workplace file for 2019 and its residence table holds {fact:ak_rac_2019} jobs, against {fact:ak_rac_2015} in 2015. The Massachusetts workplace file for 2010 is a stub of {fact:ma_wac_tracts_2010} tracts and {fact:ma_wac_2010} jobs, and its residence table holds {fact:ma_rac_2010} jobs, against {fact:ma_rac_2015} in 2015. Puerto Rico is not in the LODES tables used here.",
    "LODES counts every job, second jobs included, and assigns the workplaces of employers with several sites by a model. A survey of workers gives a lower share ({fact:acs_out_share} of workers traveled to a different county in the 2009-2013 ACS), so the two levels are not comparable."
  ],
  "source": "LEHD LODES origin-destination tables, 2010, 2015 and 2019 (Alaska and Massachusetts left out); jobs-weighted counts with confidentiality noise; county types from the USDA 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes",
  "spec": {
    "colors": {
      "Metropolitan": "cat6",
      "Nonmetropolitan, larger towns": "cat2",
      "Nonmetropolitan, smaller towns or none": "cat5"
    },
    "hi": "conf_high",
    "lo": "conf_low",
    "n": "n_counties",
    "series": "series",
    "x": "year",
    "xDomain": [
      2010,
      2019
    ],
    "xLabel": "Year",
    "xTicks": "data",
    "y": "estimate",
    "yDomain": [
      0,
      70
    ],
    "yLabel": "Jobs held by residents that are located in another county (percent)"
  },
  "subtitle": "Percent of jobs held by a county's residents that are located in a different county, pooled over the counties of each type, 2010, 2015 and 2019, jobs counted by home county",
  "title": "In 2019, {fact:out_small_2019} of the jobs held by residents of nonmetropolitan counties with smaller towns or none were in another county, against {fact:out_metro_2019} for residents of metropolitan counties",
  "type": "line",
  "width": "body"
}