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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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.
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.
Poinciana, Florida, has the longest commute time in the U.S., at 43.2 minutes on average. Sioux Falls has the longest average commute time in South Dakota, at a still-short 16.7 minutes.
New York is the only city in the United States where over half of all households do not own a car (Manhattan's non-ownership is even higher, around 75%; nationally, the rate is 8%).
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.
This is consistent with other studies that show most people do not want a commute time of shorter than 15 minutes. I agree that around 15 minutes would be ideal. But how you commute seems to matter just as much as the length of time. The research clearly shows that people are happiest walking to work.
The world's longest average commute on public and/or shared transportation is in Istanbul, Turkey (77 minutes). New York, US, ties with Bangkok, Thailand, for commute time (58 minutes). London commutes average 46 minutes, just one minute more than Pittsburgh - which has the shortest commutes in the US.