LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES)

The Census’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program contains several datasets, one of which is the Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) dataset. This dataset further contains three parts:

• Origin Destination
• Residence Area Characteristics
• Work Area Characteristics

These three pieces together provide information on commuting patterns by 2-digit industry between census tracts.

Emsi uses them together to form the basis of Occupation by Residence data. Emsi also uses Workplace Area Characteristics (WAC) to help build the commuting data used in Emsi’s Input-Output model.

Source: Census Bureau