According to the Statista Consumer Insights, for the period between October 2022 and September 2023, just under a quarter of U.S. American workers spent and average of half an hour to an hour commuting to work. In the period between 2019 and 2023, the share of workers commuting less than 15 minutes dropped by seven percentage points to 23 percent, while the share of workers commuting over an hour increased from six to 10 percent.
Average length of workers' commutes in the United States from January 2019 to June 2023
Data represents respondents' response who indicated that they work (full-time employed, part-time employed, self-employed, or as freelancer) to the survey question: "On average, how long is your daily commute to work/school/university (one way)?" Response option also included the option to select the response "I do not commute"
Survey periods:
2019: 23 January 2019 to 23 August 2019
2020: 05 February 2020 to 20 August 2020
2021: 04 January 2021 to 21 December 2021
2022: 03 January 2022 to 16 December 2022
2023: 04 October 2022 to 29 September 2023
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