Statistics on commuters in the district of Miesbach: who comes here and who goes where

Created: 05/25/2022, 10:00 am

By: Sebastian Grauvogl

Often stuck in traffic: commuters on the Autobahn (symbol image).

© Frank Rumpenhorst / dpa

More than 42 percent of employees from the district of Miesbach work elsewhere.

A new statistic shows where they commute to and who comes here from other regions.

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– Commuting is rarely subject to amusement tax.

And it's become even less attractive over the past two years.

First, working people avoided buses, trains and full offices out of concern about the corona virus, now high fuel prices are spoiling the return from home office ordered by many employers.

But how many people in the district of Miesbach have to leave their homeland to earn money?

Almost half of all employees subject to social security contributions, the Employment Agency reports in its latest statistics.

And it also has a few other exciting aspects to do with commuting.

Statistics say nothing about actual trips

Before looking at the numbers, you should first be aware of what they say - and what they don't.

"Commuters are all employees subject to social security contributions whose place of work differs from their place of residence," explains the Employment Agency in the appendix to its annually published statistics.

The district boundary alone is decisive here.

If, for example, someone from Bavaria drives to the office in Holzkirchen every day, this is not recorded.

But it is, if an Otterfinger only cycles to his part-time job in Sauerlach twice a week.

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Something else limits the interpretation: Unlike mobility data, no conclusions can be drawn about the actual traffic movements, the Employment Agency emphasizes: "Whether and how often commuters actually go to their place of work is irrelevant." Social trends such as working from home are therefore left out , as well as the question of which means of transport commuters use on their way to work.

Nevertheless, the statistics give a good picture of the relationship between commuters in and out and where they come from or have to go.

For the most recent data as of June 2021, the Employment Agency for the district of Miesbach reports 41,034 employees who are subject to social security contributions.

17,368 of them commute to other districts (42.3 percent).

More than half work in Munich.

7026 in the city and 3364 in the county.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen (1621), district (1335) and city (528) of Rosenheim, Ebersberg (299), Freising (240), Weilheim-Schongau (171), Garmisch-Partenkirchen (142) and Starnberg (119) follow.

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But there is also a counter-movement – ​​that of commuters.

More than a third (13,382, 36.1 percent) of the 37,090 jobs subject to social security contributions in the district of Miesbach are occupied by people who live outside.

This shows that Munich is not the main source (2090 state capital, 1188 district), but Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen (2885) and Rosenheim (2620).

The other places are occupied by the city of Rosenheim (471), Ebersberg (322), Traunstein (173), Weilheim-Schongau (159) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (138).

The city of Augsburg, where 148 of the commuters come from, is a bit out of line geographically.

Since the location of the job is statistically derived from the company number given by the employer, a distortion is also conceivable here.

The Employment Agency writes in the appendix:

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More outbound than inbound commuters

If you now put commuters out and in in relation to each other, the result for the district of Miesbach is -3986, a so-called negative commuter balance.

This means that the district of Miesbach (theoretically) “loses” around four percent of its population on weekdays because more people commute out than commute in.

Interesting: Compared to the oldest available evaluation from 2013, the value was almost exactly the same at -4001.

The absolute numbers, however, differ greatly.

At that time, 13,886 employees commuted out of the district – 20 percent fewer than today.

The number of commuters (9885) was even 26 percent below that of 2021.

On the other hand, it is quite possible that the driving movements may even have decreased.

The trend towards working from home – which is also the norm for some companies after the pandemic – could have an impact here.

And the high fuel prices, which are becoming more and more of a burden for commuters.

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