{"id":17394,"date":"2017-06-16T00:07:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/?p=17394"},"modified":"2017-06-16T00:07:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:07:37","slug":"ten-things-learned-travel-car-ownership-census-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/index.php\/ten-things-learned-travel-car-ownership-census-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten things we learned about Travel and Car ownership in Census 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The latest census shows more of us are spending longer in our cars and leaving earlier writes Geraldine Herbert<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. The number of people commuting to work increased by 10.7% from 1.70 million in 2011 to 1.88 million in 2016.<\/li>\n
  2. More of us are cycling than before, in fact cycling to work recorded the largest percentage increase of 42.8 per cent over the five years.<\/li>\n
  3. We are spending longer getting to work; the average stated journey time to work was 28.2 minutes in 2016, up from 26.6 minutes in 2011 and 27.5 minutes in 2006<\/li>\n
  4. 166,712 leave their homes before 6:30 am that\u2019s up just under 40% in five years.<\/li>\n
  5. 68 per cent of these early commuters were men.<\/li>\n
  6. More women than men travelled to work between the 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. time slots (women making up 57.2%).<\/li>\n
  7. So much for flexible working hours the number of workers leaving after 9.30 a.m. increased by only 2.1 per cent, from 184,701 to 188,565 between 2011 and 2016.<\/li>\n
  8. Car ownership among households continued its upward trend with 1.39 million households having at least one car in 2016 \u2013 an increase of 30,063 on 2011.<\/li>\n
  9. Meath had the highest proportion of households with at least one car (90.3%), followed closely by Cork County (89.0%).<\/li>\n
  10. Meath also had the largest proportion (43.3%) of households with two cars. Cork County had the largest proportion (7.7%) of households with three cars while 1.8 per cent of households in the State had four or more cars.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Geraldine Herbert<\/strong><\/p>\n

    15th June, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

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