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Where is the longest ride to work? 🚗

1Guess
Which states have the longest average commute to work? Tap them most-to-least.

Tapping assigns 1→4 in order

I bet… California — those LA traffic jams!
2Answer
The real order is…
    New York commuters spend about 32.8 minutes each way — the nation's longest!
    📚 Background New York workers have America's longest average ride to work — about half an hour each way, with big-city trains and traffic. The quickest commutes? The Dakotas, at around 18 minutes. (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2023)
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    I bet… California — those LA traffic jams!
    3Compare
    Average one-way commute (minutes, ACS 2023)
    🇺🇸 United States (national)26.8 minutes
    New York #1 32.8 minutes
    Highest: New York (32.8 minutes); lowest: South Dakota (18.4 minutes).

    Note: measured in minutes, one way, on average.

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    : 2023 (ACS 1-year estimates)
    U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey 2023 1-year profile DP03_0025 (mean travel time to work) (2026-07-13) — 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 mean travel time to work.