Mean one-way travel time to work from the American Community Survey, shortest first, city and state.
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New York Has the Longest Commutes of Any State (2026)
Longest Commutes by State, read from the other end of our shortest commutes by state list. Same readings, same sources, all 50 states.
By The Honest Local · 49 states · every value links to its public source
32.6 minNew York leads with the highest one-way commute of all 50 states
The top five states
No. 1New York32.6 minone-way commute
No. 2Maryland31.1 minone-way commute
No. 3New Jersey30.5 minone-way commute
No. 4Massachusetts29.1 minone-way commute
No. 5California28.7 minone-way commute
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Longest Commutes by State, all 49
The full ranking
| Place | one-way commute | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | 32.6 min |
| 2 | Maryland | 31.1 min |
| 3 | New Jersey | 30.5 min |
| 4 | Massachusetts | 29.1 min |
| 5 | California | 28.7 min |
| 6 | Georgia | 28.3 min |
| 7 | Florida | 28 min |
| 8 | Illinois | 27.8 min |
| 9 | Virginia | 27.3 min |
| 10 | Texas | 26.7 min |
| 11 | New Hampshire | 26.7 min |
| 12 | West Virginia | 26.6 min |
| 13 | Washington | 26.6 min |
| 14 | Connecticut | 26.5 min |
| 15 | Pennsylvania | 26.3 min |
| 16 | Hawaii | 26.2 min |
| 17 | Delaware | 26 min |
| 18 | Tennessee | 25.7 min |
| 19 | Louisiana | 25.7 min |
| 20 | Mississippi | 25.6 min |
| 21 | South Carolina | 25.6 min |
| 22 | Rhode Island | 25.5 min |
| 23 | Alabama | 25.5 min |
| 24 | Arizona | 25.4 min |
| 25 | Colorado | 25.2 min |
| 26 | North Carolina | 25.1 min |
| 27 | Nevada | 24.8 min |
| 28 | Maine | 24.6 min |
| 29 | Michigan | 24.2 min |
| 30 | Indiana | 24.1 min |
| 31 | Kentucky | 24 min |
| 32 | New Mexico | 23.5 min |
| 33 | Missouri | 23.5 min |
| 34 | Vermont | 23.5 min |
| 35 | Ohio | 23.4 min |
| 36 | Minnesota | 22.7 min |
| 37 | Arkansas | 22.5 min |
| 38 | Oklahoma | 22.4 min |
| 39 | Wisconsin | 22.2 min |
| 40 | Utah | 22.1 min |
| 41 | Idaho | 21.6 min |
| 42 | Iowa | 19.8 min |
| 43 | Kansas | 19.7 min |
| 44 | Alaska | 19.4 min |
| 45 | Nebraska | 19.2 min |
| 46 | Montana | 19.1 min |
| 47 | Wyoming | 18.8 min |
| 48 | North Dakota | 17.9 min |
| 49 | South Dakota | 17.8 min |
Sources and method
- American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, tables B08013 and B08303 (via tape_readings) · 2020-2024
How we got this. Commute time comes from tape_readings, which src/tape/acs-more.ts reads from the Census Bureau's ACS 5-year table-based Summary File: aggregate travel time to work (table B08013) divided by the workers who did not work from home (B08303), the mean one-way commute in minutes. Cities and states each rank on their own list, shortest first. Places tied at the same tenth of a minute share a rank. The US Virgin Islands has no ACS coverage. It refreshes annual.
Rankings by The Honest Local from public data, one page per list, refreshed on each source’s own cycle. Places with no reading are left out rather than estimated. Every value on this page carries its source in the page’s structured data.
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