The longest commutes to work among the cities of the Houston metro

the Houston metro · Data as of 2026-09-20 · 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 Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Waller County (and neighbours), TX (48 ranked in total).

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%3A48&key=YOUR_CENSUS_KEY

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