[[File:Cidade_Tiradentes_-_São_Paulo_City.jpg|thumb|[[Subprefecture of Cidade Tiradentes|Cidade Tiradentes]] is a heavily populated area in the outskirts of [[São Paulo]] consisted mainly of public housing projects. On average, its inhabitants spend 2 hours and 45 minutes a day commuting between home and work<ref>{{cite web |title=Mobilidade: paulistano leva uma hora e meia para ir e voltar do trabalho |url=https://www.capital.sp.gov.br/noticia/paulistano-leva-uma-hora-e-meia-para-ir-e-voltar-do-trabalho |website=Cidade de São Paulo |language=Portuguese| access-date=4 December 2021}}</ref>]]
A '''commuter town''' is a populated area that is primarily residential, rather than commercial or industrial. Routine travel from home to work and then from work to home is called [[commuting]], which is where the term comes from. A commuter town may be called by many other terms: '''"bedroom community"''' (Canada and northeastern US){{citation needed|date=October 2021}}, "'''bedroom town'''", "'''bedroom suburb'''" (US), "'''dormitory town'''", or "'''dormitory suburb'''". or "'''dormitory village'''" (Britain/[[English in the Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]]/Ireland).{{citation needed|date=November 2017}} In Japan, a commuter town may be referred to with the ''[[wasei-eigo]]'' coinage {{nihongo|"bed town"|ベッドタウン|beddotaun}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/ベッドタウン|title=ベッドタウンの英語・英訳 - 英和辞典・和英辞典 Weblio辞書|trans-title="Beddo Tawn" - English Translation, English-Japanese Dictionary, Weblio Dictionary|language=Japanese|access-date=4 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712153410/http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/ベッドタウン|archive-date=12 July 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The term "[[exurb]]" was also used from the 1950s, but since 2006, is generally used for areas beyond suburbs and specifically less densely built than the suburbs to which the exurbs' residents commute.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Berube |first1=Alan |title=Finding Exurbia: America's Fast-Growing Communities at the Metropolitan Fringe |date=2006 |publisher=Brookings Institution |url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20061017_exurbia.pdf |access-date=26 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204165955/https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20061017_exurbia.pdf |archive-date=4 February 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
