Access Across America: University of Minnesota releases results of a study on job accessibility by bike in the top 50 metropolitan areas. Areas with the most jobs accessible by bike are New York, San Francisco, and Chicago.

Here’s the full 100+ page study. The research was led by the Minnesota Department of Transportation and was also funded by 12 different state department of transportations and the Federal Highway Administration. It appears their goal is to create a baseline for cities to measure how changes in bike infrastructure will increase accessibility to jobs in the future.

Pages 5/6 have an interesting table on number of jobs accessible to the “typical worker” in 10 minute intervals by metropolitan area. For example, a typical New York worker has 34,000 jobs accessible by bike within 10 minutes and 225,000 within 30 minutes.

The study also differentiates between low stress routes (bike paths that are off streets or protected by barriers on streets) and medium stress routes (on-street bike lanes that aren’t protected plus low stress routes). Cities like Philadelphia appear to have good low stress access while others like Minneapolis/St. Paul have good medium stress access.

Sooooo the places with a $20,000+/yr cost of living premium.