A long commute touch on more than just whether or not you ’ll get to work on time . Spending hours getting to and from the office staff ( especially by car ) can make youfeel worseabout your job andaffect your health . While certaingifts for people with prospicient commutescould help , it might not be enough to make the experience less stressful .
So which U.S. areas have the most person - crushing commute ? Chase Sawyer , a statistician who runs the visualization siteOverflow Data , recently map out the answer , asCityLabreports .
Using data point from the Census Bureau ’s American Community Survey pick up between 2011 and 2015 , Sawyer created an synergistic computer graphic that examines average commute clock time across the U.S. Unsurprisingly , commute times near New York City and Washington , D.C. are some of the recollective . ( ditto mark for the Denver area . ) Commute times in much of the Midwest are rather short , and in Alaska , they ’re virtually nonexistent .
you could play with the interactive variation of the computer graphic on the Overflow Datasite .
Chase Sawyer / Overflow Data
The information , organizedby county , shows that Pike County , Pennsylvania ( which is part of the New York - Newark - Jersey City metropolitan arena ) technically has the foresighted average commute time in the nation , clocking in at 44 minutes . Most of the other super - recollective commutes are need by New York City worker , including in the Bronx and Brooklyn , where the ordinary commute times are all more than 40 arcminute long . Meanwhile , in some Alaskan counties , middling commutes can be as little as five minutes long ( signify many people belike know and wreak in thesame location ) .
Bear in psyche that not every commute looks the same , and how you get to piece of work is as important as how long it takes you . Workers in Brooklyn and the Bronx might be expend an minute on the wagon train each style , but research has shown that workers whotake public transitare much glad than those who motor . So a 40 - minute commute in a metropolitan domain on a gear might be nowhere nearly as awful as a gridlocked commute in a suburban area would be . We ’re reckon at you , Southern California .
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This clause was originally issue in 2017 and has been updated .
