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: McKinley Park Community Data Snapshot (2021)

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The transportation tables include vehicle availability by household, mode of travel to work, annual vehicle miles traveled, and transit availability for McKinley Park.

Vehicles Available per Household, 2015-2019

	McKinley Park		City of Chicago		CMAP Region
	Count	Percent	Count	Percent	Count	Percent
No Vehicle Available	813	15.7%	287,072	26.9%	399,783	12.8%
One Vehicle Available	2,331	45.0%	472,057	44.2%	1,111,243	35.6%
Two Vehicles Available	1,473	28.5%	232,613	21.8%	1,098,207	35.2%
Three or More Vehicles Available	558	10.8%	75,087	7.0%	514,097	16.5%

Source: 2015-2019 American Community Survey five-year estimates.

Universe: Occupied housing units

Mode of Travel to Work, 2015-2019

	McKinley Park		City of Chicago		CMAP Region
	Count	Percent	Count	Percent	Count	Percent
Work at Home*	234	3.2%	68,671	5.2%	226,183	5.4%
Drive Alone	3,790	52.4%	648,851	48.8%	2,865,893	68.4%
Carpool	902	12.5%	101,703	7.7%	323,457	7.7%
Transit	1,959	27.1%	374,906	28.2%	557,002	13.3%
Walk or Bike	275	3.8%	109,443	8.2%	164,065	3.9%
Other	77	1.1%	24,865	1.9%	53,525	1.3%
TOTAL COMMUTERS	7,003	96.8%	1,259,768	94.8%	3,963,942	94.6%
Mean Commute Time (Minutes)	30.9		35.1		32.5

Source: 2015-2019 American Community Survey five-year estimates.	Universe: Workers 16 years and older
*Not included in total commuters or mean commute time.

Annual Vehicle Miles Traveled per Household*, 2017

	McKinley Park		City of Chicago		CMAP Region
Average Vehicle Miles Traveled per Year	12,580		10,908		17,165

Source: Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning analysis of 2017 Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, HERE Technologies, and U.S. Census Bureau data.

*Data not available for all communities in the CMAP region.

Transit Availability of Resident and Job Locations*, 2017

	McKinley Park	City of Chicago	CMAP Region
High Transit Availability	100.0%	99.3%	53.9%
Moderate Transit Availability	0.0%	0.5%	20.6%
Low Transit Availability	0.0%	0.2%	25.5%

Source: Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning analysis of the 2017 Transit Availability Index.

*The CMAP Transit Availability Index is based on four factors: frequency of transit service, proximity to transit stops, activities reachable without a transfer, and pedestrian friendliness. This table reports the share of residents plus jobs whose home and workplace locations, respectively, are within each Transit Availability Index category..