# How far is your daily commute to work? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020 "2009-11-02T04:16:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/61 "2009-11-02T22:32:21Z")
I drive 52 miles door to door which isn’t too bad I my old commute was 110 miles door to door. I’m currently on temporary assignment and my condo is 5.1 miles door to door from my work and the extra two hours of free time a day is great and I go home at lunch instead of staying at my desk. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/62 "2009-11-02T23:38:41Z")
Primary job is 18 blocks (approx. 2.2 miles) Secondary job is 20 blocks (approx. 2.5 miles) Sometimes I walk 45min. , usually I take the bus 25min. If the bus fares really do get raised to $3 a ride, or $110 monthly (instead of $86 now), I will be getting a bike with intent to ride rain, snow, hail or shine, and then commute will be approx. 10-15 min. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/63 "2009-11-03T01:50:16Z")
I work from home 2 days a week. The other three, it’s about 25 miles one way (suburb to suburb). ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/64 "2009-11-03T02:15:05Z")
> [@villa](#): > > 7 miles each way. Commute time with no traffic is around 10 minutes. Me too, or thereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/65 "2009-11-03T02:29:33Z")
Approximately 5-6 miles (I opted for the 5-10 mile range); takes about 12-20 minutes on surface streets depending on traffic. I never bother with the freeway in the morning as it’s often a parking lot, but in the afternoon I’m home in under 15 minutes usually by way of freeway. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/66 "2009-11-03T03:31:11Z")
Just a hair over a mile, it takes roughly ten minutes by bicycle. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/67 "2009-11-03T03:46:24Z")
5o miles each way. Takes me about 58 minutes on the dot. It’s about 80% highway. I had a 2 mile commute for years. I miss that! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/68 "2009-11-03T03:52:20Z")
I live three blocks from where I work, and the commute is straight downhill. It actually takes me longer to warm up my car than to drive from here to there. It would probably be more sensible to walk, but mine is an on-your-feet-for-sometimes-12-16-hours job, and by the time I’m done I _really_ don’t want to hike the three blocks, _uphill_, back home. Carrying a bag full of knives. ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Salt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@Bacon\_Salt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Salt)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/69 "2009-11-03T04:40:33Z")
Half a mile. The funny thing is though, I’m a delivery driver (using my own car mostly, so I still have to drive) so I still log probably 50+ miles a day on average. However, for a couple of months, I did have a 13-mile commute when we tried to have a mall outlet. > [@elfkin477](#): > > Do a lot of you live in cities? I live in the suburbs near a sort of mini industrial park. My longest commute was 16 miles and I hated it. I don’t know how you people driving these 50-mile commutes do it. I mean, I’m driving that every day but I’m getting paid to do so, I’m stopping and walking around every so often, and I’m generally not hitting godawful rush hour traffic. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/70 "2009-11-03T12:17:08Z")
My commute is 10-20 miles, 15 to 20 minutes, since I go against the heavy rush-hour traffic. I used to be 2 miles / five minutes, but they moved workplace on me. :mad: ETA: I don’t really know if I’m average, but I voted anyway. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/71 "2009-11-03T12:32:02Z")
It’s about a 30 minute walk through the tree lined historic french concession area and a park to my cubicle. ---
**Author:** ![brix11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@brix11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brix11)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/72 "2009-11-03T17:01:04Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Switched jobs last year, my commute went from 6 miles (15 minutes) to 13 miles (30 minutes). It’s not terrible though. Biggest disadvantage is that I can’t run home for lunch anymore. I’m with you here. I work for a college in a small city, and for 7 years, my wife and I lived in a brick row home just two blocks away. It was really great. I always walked home for lunch and walked the dog, watched TV, whatever. Now, two kids later, we just moved to a small town 18 miles away, but easily accessible via highway. We all commute (wife works in the same city, kids go to daycare near the college) about 25 minutes. We’ve grown used to the new routine, and the space afforded by our new house and neighborhood are worth the trade-off. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/73 "2009-11-03T17:58:22Z")
My 17-mile commute into D.C. takes 35 minutes if I leave late, like 10:00. But if I need to be in the office by 8:30 I need to plan on double that. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/74 "2009-11-03T18:00:32Z")
Where are you coming from **CookingWithGas**? Alexandria in via Route 1 took me 50 minutes this morning (8.10 am leaving home). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Real_Regency_Elf)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/75 "2009-11-03T20:16:00Z")
I live in south Durham NC, work in RTP. My commute usually takes 11-15 minutes by car; thankfully only three minutes of that is on I-40, aka Asphalt Hell. I could work from home one day a week but I don’t have a good office setup there, so I just drive in every day. Go home for lunch about twice a week. Slight soapbox digression ahead: Our neighborhood is about 25 years old and was planned with RTP workers in mind. It kills me to hear _certain_ Cary and Wake Forest residents snottily declaring that they wouldn’t dream of living either in Durham or in a “old” house like mine that - gasp! - doesn’t even have granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. Yeah, so how’s that 1-hour commute each way on 54 or up Crapital Boulevard working out for ya? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/76 "2009-11-03T20:23:24Z")
70 miles round trip, but a lot of it is quite lovely (and opposite most traffic), so I don’t mind it much at all. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/77 "2009-11-03T20:27:32Z")
3 minute walk (which is why I bought that house). ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/78 "2009-11-03T20:32:00Z")
About 5 miles. Takes about 15 minutes as there are 2 very difficult left turns that I have to make. My former commute was 37 miles (45 minutes) going from city to suburb. Ugh, that sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/79 "2009-11-03T22:53:04Z")
It’s so interesting to me that almost 70% of the responding Dopers live 10 miles or less from their daily destinations. I know that if I were to sample 200+ people here in downtown LA asking that same question, the numbers would be very, very skewed towards living farther away. Before I moved, I was 35 miles from downtown. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020/80 "2009-11-03T23:14:44Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > It’s so interesting to me that almost 70% of the responding Dopers live 10 miles or less from their daily destinations. I know that if I were to sample 200+ people here in downtown LA asking that same question, the numbers would be very, very skewed towards living farther away. Before I moved, I was 35 miles from downtown. Oddly, in my own case, it was my workplace that moved further away. I used to live less than ten miles away from work. (I live in one suburb, my work was in another.) Then work moved to an office complex in another suburb quite a bit further from my house. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-is-your-daily-commute-to-work/516020.md?page=5)