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Table 13
Proportion of workers1 using sustainable transportation2 according to the distance between their home and place of work, census metropolitan areas, 2001 and 2006
Census metropolitan areas of work /
Census metropolitan areas of residence
Distance between place of residence and place of work
Less than 1 km 1 to 4 km 5 to 9 km 10 to 14 km 15 km and over
2001 2006 2001 2006 2001 2006 2001 2006 2001 2006
percentage

Notes:

  1. Persons whose residence is in the same census metropolitan area as the census metropolitan area of their place of work.
  2. Includes public transit, walking and bicycling.

Sources: Statistics Canada, censuses of population, 2001 and 2006.

Total 56.7 56.5 26.5 28.2 20.4 21.1 17.1 18.0 14.4 15.8
St. John's (Newfoundland and Labrador) 42.8 43.5 11.0 12.9 2.7 3.5 1.1 1.1 0.5 0.6
Halifax (Nova Scotia) 65.7 64.3 33.4 35.9 14.7 17.4 7.0 8.4 4.9 6.3
Moncton (New Brunswick) 49.6 54.3 11.5 14.0 2.5 3.1 0.3 1.7 0.5 1.3
Saint John (New Brunswick) 53.5 56.8 16.8 17.8 6.5 7.0 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.7
Saguenay (Quebec) 42.2 38.9 9.2 8.8 3.3 3.7 2.3 2.8 2.3 2.7
Québec (Quebec) 59.7 61.7 24.7 26.9 14.2 15.6 9.6 9.4 4.3 4.5
Sherbrooke (Quebec) 54.5 53.6 16.1 16.1 6.5 6.4 2.2 1.4 1.4 1.2
Trois-Rivières (Quebec) 50.6 50.2 11.3 10.8 3.8 3.8 2.5 1.2 2.4 2.4
Montréal (Quebec) 62.5 60.4 36.6 37.3 33.5 33.0 23.6 23.4 14.3 16.1
Ottawa - Gatineau (Ontario / Quebec) 64.4 62.1 36.2 38.7 26.6 28.0 21.6 22.1 15.9 18.6
Kingston (Ontario) 58.0 64.6 22.8 23.8 5.1 7.0 1.7 3.1 0.9 0.7
Peterborough (Ontario) 47.5 52.2 14.3 16.9 5.4 5.9 2.2 1.1 1.4 0.8
Oshawa (Ontario) 44.6 44.5 12.7 13.6 4.7 5.3 2.6 2.5 1.3 1.7
Toronto (Ontario) 58.3 58.1 34.8 35.3 29.2 29.1 25.2 25.6 21.7 22.6
Hamilton (Ontario) 55.0 51.7 19.3 21.1 10.4 11.0 5.6 6.4 2.6 3.0
St. Catharines - Niagara (Ontario) 42.5 41.0 10.2 12.8 2.6 3.7 1.1 1.0 0.6 1.7
Kitchener (Ontario) 47.9 48.9 13.1 16.3 5.9 7.6 2.3 2.6 1.8 3.0
Brantford (Ontario) 37.0 36.9 9.5 12.2 6.5 3.8 19.6 1.9 10.2 3.1
Guelph (Ontario) 52.2 51.0 18.7 20.3 6.4 7.7 1.7 2.3 0.0 0.0
London (Ontario) 49.4 49.3 18.0 20.5 9.2 10.3 2.6 4.0 1.0 1.4
Windsor (Ontario) 48.1 44.5 11.0 12.0 4.4 4.4 1.3 2.5 0.7 0.6
Barrie (Ontario) 40.1 41.3 12.3 13.6 4.9 5.6 1.3 0.6 1.7 1.6
Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury (Ontario) 46.1 46.1 17.6 18.8 8.1 7.8 3.2 3.0 1.8 3.4
Thunder Bay (Ontario) 45.3 52.5 9.9 11.7 4.8 4.9 1.8 3.5 1.0 1.7
Winnipeg (Manitoba) 58.9 59.4 26.5 26.4 17.5 17.6 11.9 12.2 3.2 3.4
Regina (Saskatchewan) 46.4 50.1 12.4 12.5 5.0 5.0 0.4 1.9 0.6 0.8
Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) 45.8 48.8 15.5 16.6 6.5 5.4 2.2 1.1 1.3 1.3
Calgary (Alberta) 56.2 56.0 28.8 31.1 19.4 21.3 17.8 21.2 8.3 12.4
Edmonton (Alberta) 51.9 54.1 22.3 25.3 13.4 15.3 9.4 10.6 2.7 2.9
Kelowna (British Columbia) 42.9 39.3 12.1 13.2 4.7 4.5 4.4 3.4 3.3 4.1
Abbotsford (British Columbia) 36.3 32.3 8.3 7.0 2.4 2.0 2.5 2.7 1.4 1.5
Vancouver (British Columbia) 58.7 60.4 26.5 31.6 17.1 22.5 12.9 18.0 13.7 18.5
Victoria (British Columbia) 60.8 62.7 33.0 34.7 17.1 18.7 9.1 10.7 10.9 11.9