US Counties With the Lowest Aggregate Travel Time to Work
3,208 US counties ranked by aggregate travel time to work, from lowest to highest. First are Kusilvak Census Area, AK (1561.56), Northwest Arctic Borough, AK (1890.03) and Nome Census Area, AK (1976.83). The middle one of the 3,208 has 9545.56.
What this measures
The total minutes all commuters together spend getting to work in a day. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Dakota | 8052.54 |
| 2 | Montana | 8161.75 |
| 3 | Wyoming | 8262.72 |
| 4 | Alaska | 8510.96 |
| 5 | North Dakota | 8665.95 |
| 6 | Kansas | 8703.79 |
| 7 | Nebraska | 8836.53 |
| 8 | Idaho | 8844.87 |
| 9 | New Mexico | 8876.62 |
| 10 | Iowa | 8879.39 |
| 11 | Puerto Rico | 8881.74 |
| 12 | Arkansas | 8924.21 |
| 13 | Oregon | 9140.28 |
| 14 | Utah | 9154.69 |
| 15 | Oklahoma | 9238.45 |
| 16 | Arizona | 9674.77 |
| 17 | Kentucky | 9695.57 |
| 18 | Michigan | 9867.68 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | 9903.90 |
| 20 | Ohio | 9919.35 |
| 21 | Missouri | 9959.34 |
| 22 | Minnesota | 9980.19 |
| 23 | West Virginia | 9995.18 |
| 24 | North Carolina | 10,129 |
| 25 | Mississippi | 10,136 |
| 26 | Vermont | 10,197 |
| 27 | Alabama | 10,217 |
| 28 | Maine | 10,257 |
| 29 | Nevada | 10,276 |
| 30 | Louisiana | 10,294 |
| 31 | Indiana | 10,342 |
| 32 | South Carolina | 10,541 |
| 33 | Tennessee | 10,596 |
| 34 | Delaware | 10,715 |
| 35 | Washington | 10,747 |
| 36 | Colorado | 10,819 |
| 37 | Pennsylvania | 10,928 |
| 38 | Texas | 10,969 |
| 39 | Florida | 11,072 |
| 40 | Rhode Island | 11,194 |
| 41 | Georgia | 11,391 |
| 42 | Connecticut | 11,392 |
| 43 | California | 11,447 |
| 44 | Virginia | 11,490 |
| 45 | Hawaii | 11,616 |
| 46 | Illinois | 11,695 |
| 47 | District of Columbia | 11,727 |
| 48 | New Hampshire | 11,973 |
| 49 | Massachusetts | 12,573 |
| 50 | New Jersey | 12,870 |
| 51 | Maryland | 13,114 |
| 52 | New York | 13,393 |
More on aggregate travel time to work
- US Counties With the Highest Aggregate Travel Time to Work
- Aggregate travel time to work by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.