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Mean travel time to work (minutes)

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North Carolina

Commute Times

Mean travel time to work in minutes

What does this mean?

Travel time to work refers to the total number of minutes that it usually took the person to get from home to work each day during the reference week. The elapsed time includes time spent waiting for public transportation, picking up passengers in carpools, and time spent in other activities related to getting to work. Mean travel time to work is obtained by dividing the total number of minutes by the number of workers 16 years old and over who did not work at home. Mean travel time to work is rounded to the nearest tenth of a minute.

Why does this matter?

The amount of time it takes workers to get to and from their jobs is one indicator of quality of life, which in turn contributes to states’ competitive advantage for economic development.

NC Life Index

North Carolina Ranking

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* Source: US Census Bureau

Commute Times

State	2010-01	2011-01	2012-01	2013-01	2014-01	2015-01	2016-01	2017-01	2018-01
Alabama	24.10	23.90	24.50	24.20	24.30	24.60	24.60	24.60	25.20
Alaska	18.80	18.40	19.60	19.20	18.30	19.20	18.00	19.60	19.10
Arizona	24.50	24.80	24.60	24.80	24.50	25.10	25.30	25.60	25.70
Arkansas	21.20	21.30	21.40	21.40	21.70	22.10	21.20	21.60	21.70
California	26.90	27.10	27.50	27.90	28.10	28.90	29.40	29.80	30.20
Colorado	24.10	24.50	24.50	24.60	25.10	25.40	25.00	25.90	25.90
Connecticut	24.70	25.00	24.80	25.50	25.40	26.40	26.30	26.40	26.80
Delaware	24.30	25.30	25.80	25.40	24.60	26.00	26.10	26.50	26.40
District of Columbia	29.40	30.10	29.90	29.90	29.30	29.80	30.80	30.80	30.90
Florida	25.50	25.80	26.20	26.10	26.40	27.00	27.40	27.80	28.00
Georgia	27.00	27.10	26.90	27.00	27.60	28.00	28.50	28.80	29.00
Hawaii	25.50	25.70	26.00	26.80	27.90	27.40	27.40	27.00	27.60
Idaho	20.40	19.70	20.20	20.10	20.30	20.50	20.90	21.00	21.00
Illinois	27.90	28.20	28.00	28.00	28.60	28.80	28.90	29.10	29.40
Indiana	23.20	23.50	23.50	23.20	23.30	23.30	23.60	23.60	23.90
Iowa	19.10	18.80	18.80	18.90	18.80	19.00	19.00	19.40	19.50
Kansas	19.10	18.90	19.00	19.10	19.20	19.00	19.40	19.10	19.70
Kentucky	22.60	22.90	22.90	22.60	22.90	23.30	23.30	23.30	23.50
Louisiana	24.80	24.50	25.20	25.20	25.40	25.30	25.00	25.30	26.30
Maine	23.30	23.40	23.50	23.30	23.60	24.00	23.90	24.00	24.10
Maryland	31.80	32.20	31.90	32.50	32.30	32.60	32.80	33.30	33.30
Massachusetts	27.60	28.00	28.30	28.60	28.80	29.70	29.60	29.80	30.50
Michigan	23.90	24.10	24.00	24.00	24.30	24.40	24.50	24.30	24.70
Minnesota	22.90	23.00	22.90	23.00	23.40	23.40	23.50	23.80	23.80
Mississippi	23.80	23.90	24.00	23.60	24.20	24.30	24.30	24.90	25.00
Missouri	23.00	23.10	23.10	23.20	23.10	23.60	23.70	23.70	24.00
Montana	18.60	18.20	18.40	18.00	17.90	18.00	17.50	18.10	18.60
Nebraska	18.40	18.10	18.20	18.10	18.40	18.40	18.60	18.50	18.80
Nevada	23.30	24.10	24.00	23.70	23.80	24.20	24.10	24.20	24.90
New Hampshire	25.90	26.90	26.30	26.80	27.00	27.60	26.90	27.30	27.60
New Jersey	30.30	30.50	30.70	30.90	31.10	31.30	31.70	32.10	32.40
New Mexico	22.20	21.40	21.40	21.50	21.80	21.70	21.90	22.30	23.00
New York	31.30	31.50	31.80	32.10	32.60	33.10	33.40	33.70	34.00
North Carolina	23.40	23.40	23.70	23.90	23.90	24.30	24.40	24.90	24.80
North Dakota	16.10	16.90	17.40	17.90	17.60	16.60	17.40	16.50	17.70
Ohio	22.80	23.10	23.20	23.20	23.20	23.40	23.40	23.60	23.60
Oklahoma	20.80	21.10	21.10	21.30	21.30	21.40	21.40	21.90	22.10
Oregon	22.30	22.50	22.70	22.80	23.10	23.60	23.90	24.30	23.80
Pennsylvania	25.90	25.90	26.10	26.00	26.40	26.80	26.90	27.10	27.20
Rhode Island	22.90	23.40	24.40	24.00	24.00	24.70	24.80	25.10	30.30
South Carolina	23.50	23.60	23.50	23.70	24.10	24.20	24.70	24.60	25.00
South Dakota	16.80	16.90	16.70	17.00	16.70	16.90	16.60	17.30	25.10
Tennessee	24.00	24.20	24.40	24.50	24.50	24.80	25.10	25.10	17.30
Texas	24.60	24.80	25.30	25.50	25.60	26.30	26.50	26.50	25.40
Utah	21.70	21.90	23.10	22.50	22.10	23.00	23.10	23.20	22.00
Vermont	27.50	27.70	27.90	27.70	28.10	28.20	28.50	28.60	23.60
Virginia	25.10	25.50	26.00	26.00	26.80	27.10	27.80	27.90	28.70
Washington	25.60	25.60	25.20	25.80	25.70	25.50	25.40	26.00	28.40
West Virginia	21.60	21.90	21.80	22.10	21.90	22.00	21.90	22.20	26.50
Wisconsin	18.30	18.10	18.10	17.50	18.70	19.00	16.90	17.60	22.00
Wyoming	28.90	29.70	30.00	30.20	29.40	29.20	29.10	28.50	16.20
U.S. Average	23.75	23.92	24.09	24.13	24.26	24.56	24.59	24.83	24.98