Only 2.8 percent of Americans nationally walk to work, according to a new release from the U.S. Census Bureau. That figure is basically unchanged over the past 15 years after steadily decreasing since the 1980s.
But among large cities, D.C. has the second highest proportion of walking commuters, at 12.1 percent. Only Boston had more walkers, at 15.1 percent.
Many smaller cities, mostly college towns, had higher percentages of people walking to work, but among cities larger than 200,000 people, D.C. ranks second.
Nationally, low-income, less educated people were more likely to walk, but there's a spike in walkers who have graduate degrees--2.7 percent of them walk to work, and they're also the most likely to bike to work. Younger people and those 55+ were also more likely to walk to work.
Read the full release from the Census Bureau
here.