Does it feel like your daily commute is taking longer? You're not alone. New data from the Census Bureau this month shows that in 2016, commuting times took an average of 26.1 minutes, nearly a minute more than in 2010.
Most of those commutes are spent in the car. Census data show that more than 85 percent of workers drive or carpool to their job, a figure that hasn’t changed much in recent years. Only about 5 percent took public transit, 4.6 percent worked from home, 2.8 percent walked and 0.6 percent rode a bike.
But it could be worse: East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, won the dubious honor of having the longest average commute of all metropolitan areas, clocking in at 38.6 minutes of travel time to work. The East Stroudsburg region sits roughly 75 miles from New York City and about 50 miles from the Pennsylvania cities of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre.
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