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Commute Time Percentile Calculator

Compare your usual one-way commute with the grouped 2024 ACS travel-time distribution for U.S. workers.

Empirical survey distribution

Enter the usual one-way trip to work. The ACS reference population excludes people who worked from home.

About this calculator

What this calculator measures

Compare your usual one-way commute with the grouped 2024 ACS travel-time distribution for U.S. workers. The comparison uses the reference population and evidence identified on this page.

How to interpret your result

A percentile describes the approximate percentage of the stated reference population with a lower value. When a source supports only categories, medians, or averages, Humanlytic shows that broader comparison instead of inventing an exact percentile.

Methodology

How this works

Evidence quality

Calculated from survey data

Method

Humanlytic places the entered one-way commute in one of ACS Table B08303’s 12 published travel-time categories and cumulatively sums the official 2024 national population estimates. It reports the full percentile range occupied by that category and does not assume how workers are distributed within it.

Data source

U.S. Census Bureau — 2024 ACS 1-Year Table B08303, Travel Time to Work

Limitations

ACS publishes 12 travel-time categories rather than exact-minute percentiles. Humanlytic returns the selected category’s cumulative percentile range and does not interpolate within a category.