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Originally Posted by freeweed
So the majority of professional (or in older parlance, white collar) jobs are downtown. Thanks for the numbers.
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Yup. These numbers were from a Colliers report I found for Q12014 or Q42013 (I forget). Calgary and NYC were both 60%+, Chicago was around 55% and Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal were all around 40%. After those places, office concentration drops dramatically. Houston was something like 14%.
I had to do a bit of creative arithmetic, because some jurisdictions are hard to figure out, like San Francisco, or even New York: i.e. do you include downtown New Jersey as suburban office, or just exclude Jersey altogether? (I included it as suburban, as I did for White Plains and even Stanford IIRC)