Nearly 1 million workers enter NYC every day for work, representing approximately 20% of the city's workforce. There are an additional 64k commuters to NYC from other parts of the United States.
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NYC is the most congested city in the country. 7,665,000 people enter and exit the Manhattan Central Business District (south of 60th) on an average weekday. 1,856,000 of them (24 percent) enter and exit by vehicle EACH DAY. At the peak hour, 6a, 45,000 cars enter the district EACH DAY.
Still, the report lays out some clear targets: Cut Manhattan office vacancy rates to 10% by 2025 from 22% in 2022, decrease average commute times for New Yorkers to 30 minutes from 41 minutes, and reduce the unemployment rate to 3.7% by 2025 from 5.9% in October 2022.
Nearly 1 million workers enter NYC every day for work, representing approximately 20% of the city's workforce. There are an additional 64k commuters to NYC from other parts of the United States.
While almost half the households in the city own cars, fewer people use them to commute. Of the 3.8 million workers in the city, only 27 percent commute via car, truck, or van. Staten Island is the only borough where the majority of commuters (64 percent) drive, while only 8 percent of Manhattanites drive to work.
The majority of commuters to central London (about 80% of 1.1 million) arrive by either the Underground (400,000 daily) or by surface railway into these termini (860,000 daily).
In 2019, the duration of the average one-way commute in the United States increased to a new high of 27.6 minutes, and a record 9.8 percent of commuters reported daily one-way commutes of at least 1 hour.