New Census Bureau Data Shows How Work Life Has Changed in Bucks County During Pandemic

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Bucks County has seen its work culture shift in a drastic way since the pandemic.

New data from the Census Bureau revealed how much changed in Bucks County during the pandemic, including how people worked and commuted, write Kasturi Pananjady and Aseem Shukla for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The American Community Survey samples a representative group of U.S. residents annually and extrapolates those results to the entire population. The latest numbers measure life in 2021, which can be compared to data from 2019 to see how life changed in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

For example, the number of people working from home skyrocketed in 2021 to 23.4 percent. That is nearly one in four people working from home.

The number of people using public transportation more than halved between 2019 and 2021, dropping to around one percent.

Meanwhile, Bucks County saw its inequality values as measured by the Gini coefficient increase slightly from 0.445 in 2019 to 0.446 in 2021.

Also, the suburbs have seen an increase in educated people who left the region. In 2019, 103,400 college graduates left the suburbs. That number went up to 123,000 in 2021.

Read more about how things have changed in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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