Travel Time to Work in 2017

The average American commuter spent 25.5 minutes getting to and from work in 2017, a 0.7 percent increase over 2016. Commuters who drove alone took 25.6 minutes, carpoolers took 28.2 minutes, while transit riders required 50.4 minutes. Curiously, the only method of commuting that averaged less than the national average was walking, but at 12.8 minutes it was enough to bring the national average below that of driving alone.

Average time to work was only 21.7 minutes in 1980 and 22.4 minutes in 1990. However, it has been hovering around 25.5 minutes since the 2000 census. One of the reasons for the increase between 1990 and 2000 was that the census data entry system allowed maximum commutes of 99 minutes in 1990 and earlier surveys but 240 minutes in 2000 and later surveys. This was estimated to add 30 seconds to average travel times.

Table B08136 of the American Community Survey reports the total time spent each way by commuters by mode of commuting. Since table B08301 presents the number of commuters by mode, it should be easy to divide one into the other to get the average number of minutes.

The difficulty is that the geographic areas reported in B08301 aren’t all in table B08136 and vice versa. On one hand. table B08136 doesn’t include data for every state: Alaska, Alabama, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Dakota are all missing. On the other hand, table B08136 includes at least 41 counties, cities, and urban areas that aren’t in table B08301.
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While B08136 has data for 952 states, counties, cities, and urban areas, table B08301 has 919, and the overlap between them includes just 582. When I compile the same data for 2016, only 521 states, counties, cities, and urban areas are in both tables. Only 374 states, counties, cities, and urban areas are on both the 2016 and 2017 lists. Of course, that will include most of the bigger cities and heavily populated counties.

So, for what it’s worth, I’ve posted a spreadsheet presenting the average number of minutes people take to work who drive alone, carpool, take transit, walk, or use other modes for 2016 and 2017. Communities from 2016 communities will be missing if they are not also on the 2017 list. Communities for which data are missing from either tables B08136 or B08301 will be reported as zeroes.

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The Antiplanner is a forester and economist with more than fifty years of experience critiquing government land-use and transportation plans.

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