![[OC] Percent of workers taking over 60 minutes to get to work](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/nw5d1ylncr8f1-1536x790.png "[OC] Percent of workers taking over 60 minutes to get to work")
Data is from 2023 Census ACS
Exact API call is here: https://api.census.gov/data/2023/acs/acsse?get=NAME%2CK200802_005E%2CK200802_001E&for=state%3A%2A
I made the chart here: https://selecteight.com/census
Sorry if you saw my last post, I realized I aggregated the data incorrectly!
Posted by philosophyof
27 Comments
Is that 60 minutes one way? Can’t imagine wasting 2 hours of my day going to work and back. That’s 1/8 of your waking hours.
Since this is averaging highly localized data across an entire state, this would likely be more informative if it was presented at the metro-area or even county level instead.
Does this include people that live in Mexico that commute to the US?
Not beautiful. Can’t read values of the northeast states.
This is by state worked in, correct?
When the numbers for DC, Maryland and Delaware are completely illegible, this is not beautiful
People are willing to endure commutes to live in highly desirable areas (or be near family in those areas)
Not surprising.
Why is Michigan’s number on the UP?
60 minutes on a commuter rail train is lovely. 60 minutes in stop-and-go traffic is hell.
Content good, presentation sucks.
Why is New York the highest?
I think an interesting covariate to look at would be the housing prices in these regions. I wonder if they highly correlate.
Take me over an hour to get into Brooklyn from just over the river in Hudson County. Luckily I’m an hourly paid truck driver but there’s people who make the commute just to get to work. That’s just 12 miles of driving.
Ugly and overlapping data
Am I seeing that right that Nebraska is the lowest!
i have to travel between different locations in the city, so sometimes my commute is 10 mins each way, sometimes it’s 40. can’t imagine driving over an hour each way every single day
Can confirm live in rural area work is 35-40 minutes each way.
If someone travels across state lines for work, and their commute is over 60 minutes, are they counted for the state they work in or for the state they live in?
You didn’t make the right life choices if you sit 10+ hours in your car each week. That’s at least 400+ hours per year, if holidays and vacations are taken out (or 500+ with only 2 weeks off per year). That’s 16 straight days with no sleep, or 50 days straight for 8 hours per day. *50 days for 8 hours per day!* Learn to respect your limited time on Earth. Most jobs are bullshit jobs, even if you’re paid a shit-ton of money.
Yooo I really want to see this for Europe because I feel like in my country (Slovenija) most people don’t wanma drive 20 min for a better paycheck if they have a 5 min option instead.
This seems like basically a map of where jobs are
This is a very common disadvantage of big cities and I am always wondering, when people told me, they moved to a big city where they live close to everything they need. But then they travel like 30 minutes – it’s close but waiting for bus/metro/whatever, walking to station, walking to the destination takes it’s own time. And then people who had a good distance from home to job had to get another job and good distance is gone.
That Michigan’s number is in the UP for once just makes me smile. Give those Youpers their due!
Chicago, surrounded by half. Fuckin’ course.
I wonder what New York’s number would be without NYC….
Atlanta super commuters are insane, we desperately need MARTA expansion into the excurbs
I already knew I was in the Blue 😭