{"id":1791876,"date":"2021-10-12T18:33:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T22:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791876"},"modified":"2021-10-12T18:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T22:33:39","slug":"where-americans-go-without-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/10\/where-americans-go-without-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Americans Go without a Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Map<\/a>Geographer Christopher Winters maps car ownership—or rather the lack thereof—in The Geography of Carfree Households in the United States<\/a>. In only a few census tract do more than 75 percent of the population go without owning a car. Not surprisingly, most of them are in New York, plus other densely populated cities: “New York has many more such households than any other urban area. It’s the one large place in the United States where only a minority of households have a vehicle available.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geographer Christopher Winters maps car ownership—or rather the lack thereof—in The Geography of Carfree Households in the United States. In only a few census tract do more than 75 percent of the population go without… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[363],"tags":[54,194],"class_list":["post-1791876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-human-geography","tag-cities","tag-new-york-city","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5180,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/guns-and-voters\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791876,"position":0},"title":"Guns and Voters","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"We've seen a lot of maps correlating election results with other demographic or geographic data, but SurveyMonkey's exit polling on the correlation between politics and gun ownership seems particularly stark, particularly in the context of recent events. 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