Average Commute Times
What Places Have the Worst Commutes?
Average commute time by ZIP code.
The average travel time to work in the United States is 25.4
minutes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Move around the map or
enter your town or zip code to find commute times for your area.
Click on the link below to find out what the average commute is where you are.
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If Slate’s Farhad Manjoo can’t persuade Marissa Mayer to allow Yahoo workers to work at home, perhaps the map above can. Created by WNYC’s John Keefe
and based on data from the American Community Survey, it shows average
commute times by ZIP code. In many places, commuters travel for nearly
an hour to get to work. Hidden in the averages are the 600,000
“megacommuters” who travel more than 90 minutes to work.
The worst ZIPs can often be found in metropolitan areas with the worst traffic congestion,
such as Washington, Los Angeles, and New York. However, traffic
congestion doesn’t explain it all. People who rely on public transit
have longer commutes on average than those who drive, according to
census data.
Long commutes are a well-documented source of stress and unhappiness, not to mention pollution. The average one-way daily commute in the U.S. is about 26 minutes.
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