Congestion pricing,
district by district.
How many residents have a car commute that could cross the toll boundary? Explore the estimates for all 326 districts in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, then download a fact sheet for yours.
2017–2021 commute baseline · 2025 district boundaries · Released September 13, 2026
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Share of resident workers
60th Street endpoint study boundary
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Every district, ranked
Same measure as the map above: the share of all resident workers with a vehicle commute crossing the boundary, across 224 state lower-house districts, longest bar first — select a district to see where it falls.
What the data shows
Fewer than one in forty resident commuters in the region has a car commute that crosses the toll boundary. Where those commuters live, and how much choice they have to avoid driving, both vary enormously by district.
of commuters in the state lower-house layer — about 217,000 people — have a car commute crossing the boundary. As a share of all resident workers, no district exceeds New York Assembly 23's 4.97%; the ranking shifts under other worker denominators.
of the state lower-house layer's exposure sits in just 50 of its 224 districts. The other 174 share the remaining 45%. (The 326 total districts span three overlapping chamber types — assembly, senate and congressional seats cover the same residents twice over — so they can't be pooled into one ranking.)
Transit commuters crossing the same boundary, in either direction, outnumber vehicle commuters by roughly this ratio — about 1.4 million against 217,000. Most districts show the same lopsided split.
The most car-exposed districts usually have the highest transit ridership too — both cluster near the city. The real exceptions: eastern Suffolk County, the Litchfield and New Haven hills, western Morris and Passaic counties, and the Sullivan–Orange corridor.
Much of Manhattan's own exposure is residents driving home, not driving to work. A commute that starts and ends inside the zone never crosses the boundary at all.
This baseline is 2017–2021 data, applied to a boundary that took effect in January 2025 — before remote work reached today's levels. That makes it more likely to overstate current crossings than understate them.
The congestion pricing program remains in effect while a federal appeal is pending in the Second Circuit. This analysis takes no position on that case; it measures who has a car commute that could be affected, using the best public data available before the toll began.
A commute can cross
in either direction.
The vehicle estimate includes people who live outside the zone and travel to a job inside it, plus residents who work outside the zone and drive home to it. It includes solo drivers, carpool passengers, and motorcycle commuters.
A trip made entirely within the zone does not, by itself, trigger the entry toll. Taxis and eligible for-hire vehicles are charged separately, per trip. Transit riders are shown for comparison; this analysis does not calculate what any individual gains from the program.
These are people, not toll bills. The public data used here cannot tell us who has an exemption, what route someone drives, where they park, or whether a given commuter has since switched modes.
Current tolls, credits and exemptions at the MTA ↗The data behind
your district.
How the estimate is calculated
Census commuting surveys (CTPP) supply 2017–2021 home-to-work trips by travel mode. Census block population data assigns residents to today's districts. Where a workplace could fall on either side of the boundary, Census job-location data (LODES) splits it proportionally.
When only a worker's county is known, not the exact workplace, the model assumes they cross the boundary at the same rate as their neighbors whose workplace location is known.
What the uncertainty range means
Every district fact sheet gives a range, not just a single number. That range shows how much the estimate could shift if every unresolved workplace fell on the least favorable side of the boundary instead. It is a stress test of the assumptions, not a statistical confidence interval.
A separate margin of error, shown alongside, reflects ordinary Census sampling uncertainty. Neither number captures every source of error, and neither reflects anything that has changed since 2021.
Which districts are included
The map covers all 326 districts with residents in the 31-county tri-state region used in this analysis, including Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut. Each fact sheet describes the full district, including any part that falls outside that region.
New Jersey's Senate and Assembly seats share the same district lines, so each geography appears once per layer. Because state senate, state house and congressional districts overlap each other, their counts should never be added together.
Download the evidence. All district estimates (CSV) · Source register · Calculation specification. Baseline: CTPP 2017–2021. Geography: Census TIGER/Line 2025 and 2020 Census blocks. Workplace allocation: LODES 2021. Values are estimates, rounded for presentation.