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    • Commuting Zones and Labor Market Areas

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    Note: Updates to this data product are discontinued. County boundaries do not always accurately define local economies. Commuting zones and Labor Market Areas combine counties into units intended to more closely reflect the geographic interrelationships between employers and labor supply.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture
    Maintainer
    Identifier USDA-ERS-00057
    Data First Published 2019-03-26
    Data Last Modified 2019-03-26
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:13
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/commuting-zones-and-labor-market-areas/documentation/
    Harvest Object Id 168770f3-6a13-49c1-b5d0-4b910fb11439
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/commuting-zones-and-labor-market-areas/
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 005:041
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 0b9682bf48eab092bd8be2a26c66061a5b4925cf01c1dced67c60a650e6c9d89
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":-124.733253,24.544245,-124.733253,49.388611,-66.954811,49.388611,-66.954811,24.544245,-124.733253,24.544245}
    Temporal 1980-01-01/2000-01-01

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