What's a typical one-way commute in the US?
Median is 26 min. Most people fall between 15 min and 40 min. Above 60 min is top-10%.
What's a typical one-way commute?
The median US adult lands at 26 min for one-way commute. The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 15 min to 40 min. Below 10 min you're in the bottom 10%; above 60 min you're in the top 10%.
How we computed this
We anchor at p1, p5, p10, p25, p50, p75, p90, p95, and p99 from public-data sources and linearly interpolate between them. See methodology for the full chain.