New data from the Census Bureau revealed how much changed in Delaware County during the pandemic, including how people worked and commuted, write Kasturi Pananjady and Aseem Shukla for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The American Community Survey samples a representative group of U.S. residents annually and extrapolates those results to the entire population. The latest numbers measure life in 2021, which can be compared to data from 2019 to see how life changed in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

For example, the number of people adopting a pandemic lifestyle and working from home skyrocketed in 2021 to 21.6 percent. That is more than one in five people working from home.

The number of people using public transportation nearly halved between 2019 and 2021, dropping to around five percent.

Meanwhile, Delaware County saw its inequality values as measured by the Gini coefficient go down slightly from 0.492 in 2019 to 0.491 in 2021.

Also, the suburbs saw an increase in educated people who left the region. In 2019, 103,400 college graduates left the suburbs. That number went up to 123,000 in 2021.

Philadelphians were more likely than the average American to be working remotely in 2021 as part of the new pandemic lifestyle.

Read more about how things have changed in The Philadelphia Inquirer.