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Who shares a ride to work? 🚕

1Guess
Which states have the biggest share of workers who carpool? Tap them most-to-least.

Tapping assigns 1→4 in order

I bet… Texas — long drives, share the gas!
2Answer
The real order is…
    Hawaii tops it — on an island there are only so many roads to share.
    📚 Background Hawaii has the largest share of workers who carpool. Interestingly New York — the public-transportation champion — carpools the least. Why the two ends look like that is a good question; this survey counts what people do, not why. (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2023)
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    I bet… Texas — long drives, share the gas!
    3Compare
    Share of workers who carpool (%, ACS 2023)
    🇺🇸 United States (national)9 %
    Hawaii #1 15.8 %
    Highest: Hawaii (15.8 %); lowest: New York (6.4 %).

    Note: carpooling means two or more people riding to work in the same car.

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    : 2023 (ACS 1-year estimates)
    U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey 2023 1-year profile DP03_0020PE (share of workers who carpool) (2026-08-02) — Official published survey estimates (the committed raw file is the API response, unchanged).
    ↳ On data.census.gov, open profile table “DP03” for 2023 and read DP03_0020PE (share of workers who carpool) by state.