See what the average commute is in Bay City
American commutes are getting longer, with a released in 2021 revealing the average one-way commute in 2019 reached a record high of 27.6 minutes. Combined with record-high gas prices, workers' daily commutes are 鈥攕o much so that some are calling for commutes to count as part of the workday.
Even worse are travel times for ""鈥攖hat unlucky 10% of Americans traveling more than one hour each way to punch a clock.
compiled statistics about the average commute in Bay City using data from the . Statistics are calculated based on 2020 5-year estimates.
The longest commute times in the country can predictably be found around East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, the New York City metro area, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, Virginia, and the Bay Area, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 American Community Survey.
- Average commute: 22.8 minutes--- Workers with a 1+ hour commute: 5.1%
- Workers who drive to work: 91.2%
--- Workers who carpool to work: 6.6%
- Workers who take public transportation to work: 0.6%
- Workers who work from home: 5%
- Left for work from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m.: 15.6%
- Worked outside county of residence: 26.37%
Metros with the worst average commute
#1. East Stroudsburg, PA: 40 minutes
#2. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA: 37 minutes
#3. Stockton, CA: 35.2 minutes
#4. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV: 34.8 minutes
#5. San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA: 34.1 minutes
Metros with the best average commute
#1. Grand Forks, ND-MN: 15.7 minutes
#2. Walla Walla, WA: 15.8 minutes
#3. Dubuque, IA: 16.4 minutes
#4. Cheyenne, WY: 16.4 minutes
#5. Great Falls, MT: 16.5 minutes
