In a previous post I highlighted Census data released last fall which shows that
Miami Beach is the 10th city in the nation for biking to work.
Approximately 7% of workers regularly use a bicycle for the longest part of
their commute. That’s about 3,000 people in our city biking regularly to work,
and I was curious – who are they?
With Miami’s bike scene growing like crazy lately--
thousands showing up for Critical
Mass, new
bike facilities in the works for Downtown, etc.-- it would be easy to
assume that these bicyclists-to-work are bicycle activists, young urban professionals,
or the like. But the data indicate something else.
On Miami Beach those most likely to bike to work are service
industry workers with median annual earnings of about $21,000 per year, well
below the citywide average of $32,597. Here are the top 10 industries:
