# US states by mean travel time to work, 2024

All 51 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `mean_travel_time_to_work`
- Unit: minutes
- Definition: Mean one-way travel time to work in minutes for workers aged 16 and over who did not work from home.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates: mean travel time to work, B08135 aggregate minutes divided by B08303 workers not working at home (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-10
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates: mean travel time to work, B08135 aggregate minutes divided by B08303 workers not working at home. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/mean-travel-time-to-work/us-states
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/mean-travel-time-to-work/us-states.csv

| Rank | Place | minutes |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | New York | 32.6 |
| 2 | Maryland | 31.1 |
| 3 | New Jersey | 30.5 |
| 4 | District of Columbia | 30 |
| 5 | Massachusetts | 29.1 |
| 6 | California | 28.7 |
| 7 | Georgia | 28.3 |
| 8 | Florida | 28 |
| 9 | Illinois | 27.8 |
| 10 | Virginia | 27.3 |
| 11 | New Hampshire | 26.7 |
| 11 | Texas | 26.7 |
| 13 | Washington | 26.6 |
| 13 | West Virginia | 26.6 |
| 15 | Connecticut | 26.5 |
| 16 | Pennsylvania | 26.3 |
| 17 | Hawaii | 26.2 |
| 18 | Delaware | 26 |
| 19 | Louisiana | 25.7 |
| 19 | Tennessee | 25.7 |
| 21 | Mississippi | 25.6 |
| 21 | South Carolina | 25.6 |
| 23 | Alabama | 25.5 |
| 23 | Rhode Island | 25.5 |
| 25 | Arizona | 25.4 |
| 26 | Colorado | 25.2 |
| 27 | North Carolina | 25.1 |
| 28 | Nevada | 24.8 |
| 29 | Maine | 24.6 |
| 30 | Michigan | 24.2 |
| 31 | Indiana | 24.1 |
| 32 | Kentucky | 24 |
| 33 | Missouri | 23.5 |
| 33 | New Mexico | 23.5 |
| 33 | Vermont | 23.5 |
| 36 | Ohio | 23.4 |
| 37 | Oregon | 23 |
| 38 | Minnesota | 22.7 |
| 39 | Arkansas | 22.5 |
| 40 | Oklahoma | 22.4 |
| 41 | Wisconsin | 22.2 |
| 42 | Utah | 22.1 |
| 43 | Idaho | 21.6 |
| 44 | Iowa | 19.8 |
| 45 | Kansas | 19.7 |
| 46 | Alaska | 19.4 |
| 47 | Nebraska | 19.2 |
| 48 | Montana | 19.1 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 18.8 |
| 50 | North Dakota | 17.9 |
| 51 | South Dakota | 17.8 |