1980 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Summary data (1984)

VI. THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DAILY COMMUTING ACTIVE EARNERS

which means that 31 percent of the active earners of this county are commuters. In respect of the proportions, commuting was much greater in the counties Nógrád and Heves, where the proportions of commuters were 43 percent and 36 percent respectively. These counties are also industrial with the closeness of two great industrial centrums (Budapest and Miskolc). The proportion of commuters was above 30 percent also in the counties Fejér, Komárom, Veszprém and Zala among the active earners. In 1980 36 percent of the active earners lived in the above mentioned 8 counties, while the majority of the commuters (57 percent) lived in these counties. The proportion of commuters was lowest (between 14 and 18 percent) in the less industrial counties, with relatively large extension, and with relatively few settlements such as Békés, Csongrád and Hajdu-Bihar. In 1980 the residence and the place of work were in the same county of almost three fourths of the commuters, and only somewhat more than one fourth of the commuters went to work to counties different from their residence. But in this respect the deviation is high. For example 73 percent of the commuters of the county Pest - because of already earlier mentioned reasons - worked outside the county, mostly in the capital. Higher than 20 percent outside of the county commuting was observed only in counties close to Budapest, like: Fejér, Nógrád, Szolnok and Heves. In ten counties the proportion of inside commuting was over 90 percent, which means that the vast majority of the commuters found jobs in the county of residence. 114