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Commuters travelling an hour or more: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of commuters travelling an hour or more (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Commute times by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-11

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National value: 9.5 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 7.1 %
RI 8.7 %
DE 8.1 %
CT 9.8 %
NJ 15.6 %
MD 15.7 %
MA 13.2 %
VT 5.5 %
NH 8.9 %

Lowest: 3.6 to 5.6 %
Group 2: 5.6 to 6.6 %
Group 3: 6.6 to 8 %
Group 4: 8 to 9.6 %
Highest: 9.6 to 17.9 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.


1	New York	17.9
2	Maryland	15.7
3	New Jersey	15.6
4	Massachusetts	13.2
5	California	12.2
6	Georgia	11.5
7	West Virginia	10.8
8	Illinois	10.7
9	Florida	10.1
10	Connecticut	9.8
11	Texas	9.6
11	Virginia	9.6
13	Washington	9.4
14	New Hampshire	8.9
15	Hawaii	8.8
15	Pennsylvania	8.8
17	Rhode Island	8.7
18	Delaware	8.1
18	Mississippi	8.1
20	Louisiana	8
20	South Carolina	8
22	Tennessee	7.7
23	Alabama	7.5
23	Maine	7.5
25	Wyoming	7.3
26	Arizona	7.2
27	District of Columbia	7.1
28	Colorado	7
28	New Mexico	7
30	North Carolina	6.9
31	Kentucky	6.6
31	Michigan	6.6
33	Indiana	6.4
33	Oregon	6.4
35	Utah	6.1
36	Arkansas	5.8
36	Idaho	5.8
36	Missouri	5.8
39	Nevada	5.7
40	Alaska	5.6
40	Wisconsin	5.6
42	Minnesota	5.5
42	Montana	5.5
42	Oklahoma	5.5
42	Vermont	5.5
46	Ohio	5.3
47	North Dakota	5.2
48	Iowa	4.2
49	Kansas	4.1
50	Nebraska	3.6
50	South Dakota	3.6

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B08303: Travel time to work. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of commuters travelling an hour or more (%, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B08303: Travel time to work; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-commuters-travelling-an-hour-or-more/

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