Explore changes in the way people travel to work since the COVID-19 pandemic.





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*New Brief About Travel to Work Since Pandemic’s Onset*

New Brief: Commuting in the United States: 2022 [ [link removed] ]

The U.S. Census Bureau today released a brief highlighting the latest available statistics on commuting behavior in the United States and Puerto Rico from the 2022 American Community Survey (ACS). The brief, "Commuting in the United States: 2022" [ [link removed] ], explores recent commuting trends using estimates from the 2022 ACS, 1-year dataset, with comparisons to 2019 and 2021.

The analysis shows changes in the way people travel to work since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic along with several key commuting characteristics, including means of transportation to work, travel time to work, and time of departure from home to go to work.

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▶️ Almost 140 million people in the United States routinely commuted to work in 2022, and more than 20 million worked from home.

▶️ Among U.S. workers, 15.2% worked from home in 2022, down from almost 17.9% in 2021 but still far higher than the 5.7% that worked from home before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. Among workers in Puerto Rico, 5.9% worked from home in 2022, down from 7.4% in 2021 but more than twice the 2019 share of 2.4%.

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