There are more than 400,000 commuters in Bulgaria

“More than 400,000 Bulgarians travel every day from the settlement they live in to the neighbouring town or village where they work,” Plamen Dimitrov, President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB), announced today, citing data from a large-scale survey of the syndicate on the domestic labour market. Daily labour migration is a fact in all the 264 municipalities in the country and almost all settlements, and the time employees spend every day travelling from their home and the place they work exceeds 500,000 hours per day. According to CITUB’s survey, the largest number of commuters - about 113,000 or 28.3% of all workers travelling daily - is in the Processing Industry sector; some 12.3% are employed in the Trade and Services sector, 10.5% - in Construction and 7% - in the State Administration.

The largest share of commuters among the total number of people employed in the respective sectors are in the Mining Industry, Production and Distribution of Electricity, Processing Industry and Transport. According to the survey, machine operators and fitters are the most mobile professional groups. Buses and cars are the most frequently used vehicles by commuters, accounting for 45% and 38%, respectively. Only about 5.5% rely on trains.

More than a third of all the trips to the work place take 15 to 30 minutes, 23.9% take 30-45 minutes, 13% - from 45 to 60 minutes. An interval of 30 to 45 minutes is considered optimal, since longer periods make people complain of fatigue which reduces their productivity. About 100,000 commuters travel longer than the optimal time interval, according to CITUB’s survey. A total of 146,606 employees a day travel within their respective municipality.

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