Question about commuters..

[zeroinfinity2]

I'm thinking this may be due to some eternal commuters, but here goes..
I installed the CAM and loaded up a city I was working on in an empty region (the city had about 150k residents). Instantly the commercial demand shot up, and all of that, because of the doubling bug....

So I datpacked the files, etc, etc, and now I want to keep my commercial hi-rises and such, so I made suburbs in other plots of land adjacent to my city. I would like to note that each suburb has a connection to my main city, and not between each other.

The following is census data for one of those surburbs, Silence.


My question is on the "Commuters from SimNation". It's showing that I have 73,795 commuters going into this suburb. Why are commuters commuting to a suburb with no jobs available? I didn't zone any commercial or industrial in Silence.

Then here is my main city (New New York -- Futurama anyone?).


There is still open jobs in this city (the suburbs are helping with this).
The commuters to my main city are so low -- why is it that Silence is getting all of my commuters?

Thanks all in advance.

[xxdita]

For the Census Repository, the term commuters from SimNation is inaccurate. Really, what's shown is the extrapolation from other cities.

Also, it appears that the Commerical and Industrial Commuters to SimNation are only telling you the difference between the current city's Job Capacity vs it's Workforce Demands. This will contribute to the demand in other cities.

But from the layout you've described, I seriously doubt that you have a case of true eternal commuters, so don't worry. 

[zeroinfinity2]

For the Census Repository, the term commuters from SimNation is inaccurate. Really, what's shown is the extrapolation from other cities.

I see. So other cities or suburbs with no jobs would also have extrapolated data?
If there's not commuters coming in, I wonder why that number isn't a zero. Having this statistic extrapolated makes it unreliable and difficult to really know how many commuters are... commuting. In the main city, are these exact numbers? There has to be solid commuter numbers somewhere to begin to determine what possible commuters there may be.

Also, it appears that the Commerical and Industrial Commuters to SimNation are only telling you the difference between the current city's Job Capacity vs it's Workforce Demands. This will contribute to the demand in other cities.

Where can I find a more accurate representation of commuters coming in and out of my cities?

[xxdita]

For the true numbers of commuters, you'll need to query each of your Neighbor Connections in that city.