2011 Commute Minutes

Average commute time for all full-time American workers
= 25.5 minutes each way.

For general commuters:

• 79.9% drove alone
• 10.1% carpooled
• 5.3% took public transit
• 4.8% rode a bike, walked/other

In the U.S. Census Bureau's Out-of-State and Long Commutes: 2011 (pdf) report, 8.1% of full-time workers made long commutes (60 minutes or more each way). Of the long commuters:

• 61.1% drove alone
• 12.9% carpooled
• 23% took public transit
• 2.9% rode a bike, walked/other

3.7% of workers living in Iowa had commutes of 60 minutes or longer.

600,000 full-time workers in the U.S. are megacommuters (90 minutes each way over a distance of at least 50 miles).

Source: U.S. Census Bureau Newsroom