Frustrated drivers creeping along New Jersey’s congested highways in bumper-to-bumper traffic know it all too well. The Garden State is a rough haul for the commute-to-work crowd, and the latest data from the U.S. Census shows its only getting worse.
New Jersey drivers and mass transit riders have the third worst commute times in the country at an average of 30.3 minutes each way last year, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. That’s up from 28.6 minutes a year earlier.
Only commuters in New York and Maryland had it worse in 2022. The national average commute time was 26.4 minutes, according to the Census.
Complicating the drive for New Jersey residents is congestion around major cities. About 10% of New Jersey’s workforce commute to New York City alone.
A note about the data: The data was taken as part of the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey, which is given to nearly 300,000 people every month for a year to understand how Americans live, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s website.
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