Abstract. The article informs about the possibilities of additional data exploitation from the Federal population census relative to commuter and place of work statistics. In the region of Berne in 1980 the detailled localization of the work or school sites within the municipalities has been encoded additionally to the municipality number. Due to the lack of some informations on the census papers the data sets have partly to be count up proportionally according to specified rules. As result one gets detailled commuter matrices and place of work statistics for small areas, which are usefull for urban research, specifically for transport planning. The figures show the development of the work places in the town of Berne and the commuter streams from the surroundings to the central town.