commuter town

Under a commuter community refers to a community with few jobs. For this reason, the residents have to commute to the nearest towns. Commuter communities are often encountered in the affluent suburbs of big cities. However, the proportion of commuters in the " commuter communities " is not higher than in most rural communities outside the commuter belt, also find their inhabitants usually in her home no longer work and therefore commute to the nearest small and medium-sized cities. However, in contrast to the inhabitants of classic commuter towns they went not aware there ( for example due to the more favorable construction land ), but (several generations) live for a long time in the place, and shall have on inherited real estate.

Economical benefit those communities from the fact that residents of the city who want to move to the country, move to the nearby surrounding communities. A disadvantage of this represents for the cities that are losing population, yet an extensive infrastructure and cultural facilities need (such as theater) entertained.

In recent years, the trend to the suburbs and commuter towns has increased. Suburbs are denser merged with the city as commuter towns, which are also in the wide area of the cities. Often, however, they are between two major cities, so that the rush-hour traffic flows through these places.

Examples of commuter communities are Neu-Isenburg, which is close to Frankfurt and Offenbach am Main or Rhein Stetten, located in Karlsruhe and Ettlingen.