The map 4 shows municipal out-commuting flows as a share of the origin municipality’s working age population (15-64 years). The origin municipality is the municipality where the commuters reside, while they work in (and commute to) the destination municipality.

The dominant commuting flows are directed to the capital municipalities. Large flows can also however be viewed in the direction of a number of municipalities located in the proximity of the Nordic capital cities. There are also large commuting flows from municipalities located around various other metropolitan municipalities. Åland has many municipalities with intense commuting patterns between the municipalities, similar to the larger metropolitan regions, but the commuter flow is generally directed towards municipalities around Mariehamn.  In the Faroe Islands, only two out of seven commuting districts do not have out-commuting flows to the capital district (Tórshavn and suburban settlements) above 6%, i.e. Suduroyar and Nordoya. Suduroyar is, in fact, the only commuting district without an out-commuting flow above 6% (due to its remoteness from Tórshavn, the main labour market). Inland northern Sweden and Finland generally have a sparsity of out-commuting flows, but some rather major ones do still exist, in Sweden to Östersund, Umeå and Luleå and in Finland to Oulu and Vaasa.

Map ID: 01111

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Designer/Cartographer

Linus Rispling, Shinan Wang and Anna von Zweygbergk

Data source

NSIs, Region Värmland & Västra Götalandsregionen, Öresundskomiteen

Published 16 February 2016

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