Almost 140,000 Central Bohemians commute to Prague every day. Where from the most?
Prague is attracting more and more people from its vicinity. Almost 140,000 Central Bohemians go to work, school or for services to the capital every day.
“Over the last 15 years, the number of commuters has increased by 47 percent,” says Jan Senohrábek of Česká distribuční, which mapped the population of domestic cities. “The number of municipalities, most of which commute to Prague, has also increased significantly. In 2002, there were 374 of them, this year already 562, “he adds.
The reasons why more and more Central Bohemians are heading to the metropolis every day are quite logical: many families have built houses in satellites in the rings surrounding the capital. And even from more distant places in the region, it pays to pay for significantly higher Prague salaries.
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The metropolis mainly sucks the nearest districts, ie Prague-East and Prague-West, from where a total of over 66,000 people commute, which is a fifth to a quarter of the local population.
According to the authors of the analysis of the slope from Česká distribuční, these people just sleep in their village “homes” and the classic countryside (not only around Prague) gradually disappears.
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Every morning, a tenth of people sleeping in the towns and villages of the Mělník and Kladno districts head to the metropolis. After all, it is from Kladno, the largest city in the Central Bohemian Region, that 7,500 people commute to school or work. It is also more than ten of its inhabitants.
A similar situation as in Prague, although to a lesser extent in the vicinity of Brno, Pilsen and Ostrava, the wider background is also expanding. On the contrary, some previously important catchment centers have changed dramatically, which is the situation in Kladno, or they have lost their significance, such as Beroun in Central Bohemia.