Commute exposure and center coverage ◂ Back to the Planner

Office-proxy workers by place of residence and place of work, against the planned seat count at each center.
Distances are straight-line, so real driving distance is longer and these figures are conservative.
LEHD LODES8, Texas, 2023 · 12,039,831 block-to-block records · segment SI03 “All Other Services” · seats from ION Model R3 Per-Center
v0.5 · basis of record 2026-08-16: exposure figures are the 20–60 mi one-way cohort (the 60+ band is a workplace-assignment artifact and is excluded); source table ProjectION-LODES-CommuteExposure-v0.2.csv; Gateway corridor through-flows use the 1.5-mile desire-line rule. Refresh recipe: Models-Data\LODES\README-LODES.txt
Centers not shown here: Lago Vista is in the ION network (26 centers) but has no record in this map, because it is not in the LEHD LODES extract above. It is named rather than silently omitted, and will appear when the extract is refreshed with a matching place code.

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Distance threshold

20 miles
Workers whose commute exceeds this straight-line distance.

Upper cut-off

60 miles
Recommended: keep at 60. 126,173 workers show straight-line commutes averaging 146 miles — implausible as daily travel, and almost certainly an artifact of how LODES assigns a workplace for multi-site employers. Raising this cut-off readmits them and inflates every figure below.

Benefit assumptions

Value of time and operating cost are USDOT 2026 recommended values in 2024 dollars. Additionality is unestimated — the share of participants who would not otherwise have worked from home. Treat it as a scenario dial, not a finding.