Commute time by state.
Middle average one-way commute across each state's cities. US Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024.
Average commuteunder 19 min19 min–22 min22 min–24 min24 min–27 min27 min+
Every state, ranked
Average commute, highest first. Each value is the middle across the cities we list in that state, so states with few cities rest on few numbers.
- 1New York31 min202 cities
- 2Maryland31 min138 cities
- 3New Jersey30 min157 cities
- 4District of Columbia30 min1 city
- 5Massachusetts29 min89 cities
- 6California28 min502 cities
- 7Virginia28 min129 cities
- 8Florida28 min342 cities
- 9Illinois28 min224 cities
- 10Hawaii28 min34 cities
- 11Georgia27 min113 cities
- 12Washington27 min131 cities
- 13Nevada26 min24 cities
- 14Arizona26 min68 cities
- 15Colorado26 min70 cities
- 16Texas25 min267 cities
- 17Louisiana25 min57 cities
- 18Pennsylvania25 min87 cities
- 19Rhode Island24 min11 cities
- 20Alabama24 min70 cities
- 21Connecticut24 min35 cities
- 22New Hampshire24 min15 cities
- 23Tennessee24 min65 cities
- 24North Carolina24 min96 cities
- 25Delaware24 min11 cities
- 26Oregon23 min68 cities
- 27South Carolina23 min62 cities
- 28Michigan23 min101 cities
- 29Ohio22 min186 cities
- 30Utah22 min66 cities
- 31Idaho22 min25 cities
- 32Indiana22 min85 cities
- 33Minnesota22 min101 cities
- 34Missouri22 min87 cities
- 35Kentucky22 min45 cities
- 36Mississippi22 min41 cities
- 37Wisconsin21 min96 cities
- 38West Virginia21 min16 cities
- 39New Mexico21 min23 cities
- 40Oklahoma21 min45 cities
- 41Kansas19 min35 cities
- 42Maine19 min13 cities
- 43Arkansas19 min39 cities
- 44Alaska19 min7 cities
- 45Iowa19 min42 cities
- 46Vermont18 min4 cities
- 47North Dakota16 min9 cities
- 48Nebraska16 min17 cities
- 49Wyoming16 min11 cities
- 50Montana16 min8 cities
- 51South Dakota13 min13 cities