According to our research: 74% of Americans commute to work every day.
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Commuting from home to work should be less than 50 miles and within 30 minutes, and the surrounding area of your workplace should be within 50 miles of your home. It is ideal for commuters to take at least 5 minutes to commute to work, and the one-way commute should take more than 16 minutes.
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.
New Yorkers spend the most time — 37 minutes, or 325 hours annually — on an average one-way daily commute in the country. Jackson, Mississippi, and Visalia-Porterville, California, have the deadliest morning commutes in America.
In 2017, commuting to and from work accounted for about a quarter of total vehicle trips, and about 30 percent of vehicle-miles traveled—so commuting is not the entire story, but it is a big one.
The average U.S. commute by car is only 25 minutes, but this isn't the case for many forms of public transportation. For example, traveling by bus or subway in the U.S. takes an average of 45 and 47 minutes, respectively. Driving time is an average of 25 minutes for American commuters. This is per one-way trip.