Vancouver vs. Canada

Ever wondered how your Lower Mainland commute stacks up against Montreal's, say, or Toronto's? Or how far any of us drive? Well, we have some charts below, to edify and entertain.

Did you know that:

• More people in Vancouver than in Toronto, Calgary or Montreal live within 5 km. of their workplace
• Toronto has the most commuters who travel 30 km. or more to work
• A commute of 25 to 30 kilometers is equally common in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto
• Eighty-three per cent of Calgarians live within 14 km. of their workplace

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Note(s)
• [1] Excludes census data for one or more incompletely enumerated Indian reserves or Indian settlements.
• [1] Data quality index showing, for the short census questionnaire (100% data), a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.
• [1] Data quality index showing, for the long census questionnaire (20% sample data), a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.
• [1] 2001 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.
• [2] Commuting distance Part A - Plain language definition Straight-line distance between a respondent's home and place of work. Part B - Detailed definition Refers to the distance, in kilometres, between the respondent's residence and his or her usual workplace location. The variable relates to non-institutional residents 15 years of age and over who worked at some time since January 1, 2005. The variable usually relates to the individual's job held in the week prior to enumeration. However, if the person did not work during that week but had worked at some time since January 1, 2005, the information relates to the job held longest during that period.
• [3] The median distance of a specified group of distance units is that distance which divides their distribution into two halves, i.e. the distances of the first half are below the median, while those of the second half are above the median. The
  distance is calculated as the straight-line distance between the residential block representative point and the workplace location representative point. For persons who work outside the areas covered by census metropolitan areas or census agglomerations, the workplace location is usually coded to a single representative point for the census subdivision of work. This can affect the calculated commuting distance, particularly when the census subdivision of work has a large area. This is most apparent for members of the labour force who live in smaller, resource-based urban areas and work outside the census metropolitan area or census agglomeration.