WA: The Three Occupations that Use Public Transit Far More than Most in King County

    Sept. 7, 2018
    Here are three occupations you won’t see in the same sentence very often: College professors, housekeepers and computer programmers. Very different jobs, to be sure, but they have at least one thing in common.

    Source The Seattle Times

    Here are three occupations you won’t see in the same sentence very often: College professors, housekeepers and computer programmers. Very different jobs, to be sure, but they have at least one thing in common.

    But you’ll find it in 2016 census data: King County residents employed in these three fields rely most heavily on public transit for commuting to work, among the 50 most common occupations.

    College professors rank No. 1, with about 28 percent taking some form of transit to get to work — that’s more than twice the King County average of 13 percent. Housekeepers are just a fraction behind, with computer programmers in third place. 

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