How far apart the cities of the Triangle are on commute time

the Triangle · Data as of 2026-09-18 · ALEX Intelligence

Read this carefully: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024. The figure is aggregate travel time to work divided by the number of workers who did not work at home -- a true mean, not a bucketed midpoint. Places where the ACS suppresses either aggregate are absent rather than shown as zero.

Methodology

Source:

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2024

Measure

Mean commute, minutes, ranked highest first across Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Orange, Person, Wake County (and neighbours), NC (16 ranked in total).

How the headline figure is computed

Archer Lodge against Siler City, the highest and lowest of the 16 units compared. Every unit is named individually in the table below and each figure is that unit's own; none of them is a figure for the market as a whole. The median across the 16 is 26.2.

Universe

Places below a 5,000-resident floor are excluded so a median computed on a handful of households cannot top the ranking.

Vintage

2024

Reproduce this query

https://api.census.gov/data/2024/acs/acs5?get=NAME%2CB01003_001E%2CB01002_001E%2CB19013_001E%2CB25077_001E%2CB25064_001E%2CB25003_001E%2CB25003_002E%2CB25002_001E%2CB25002_003E%2CB25035_001E%2CB25010_001E%2CB25070_001E%2CB25070_007E%2CB25070_008E%2CB25070_009E%2CB25070_010E%2CB25075_001E%2CB25075_024E%2CB25075_025E%2CB25075_026E%2CB25081_001E%2CB25081_009E%2CB01001_020E%2CB01001_021E%2CB01001_022E%2CB01001_023E%2CB01001_024E%2CB01001_025E%2CB01001_044E%2CB01001_045E%2CB01001_046E%2CB01001_047E%2CB01001_048E%2CB01001_049E&for=place%3A%2A&in=state%3A37&key=YOUR_CENSUS_KEY

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