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Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16 years+, 2014-2018 - (Minutes)
County
Value
Allen
17.1
Anderson
24.5
Atchison
18.5
Barber
16.6
Barton
16.9
Bourbon
18.0
Brown
19.0
Butler
23.1
Chase
22.9
Chautauqua
20.6
Cherokee
19.3
Cheyenne
12.0
Clark
16.3
Clay
19.9
Cloud
16.3
Coffey
20.1
Comanche
13.6
Cowley
18.9
Crawford
16.8
Decatur
17.7
Dickinson
20.9
Doniphan
21.1
Douglas
20.6
Edwards
18.3
Elk
25.5
Ellis
12.3
Ellsworth
17.8
Finney
14.0
Ford
14.3
Franklin
23.6
Geary
16.8
Gove
13.6
Graham
13.7
Grant
16.3
Gray
15.8
Greeley
9.5
Greenwood
22.8
Hamilton
16.9
Harper
16.1
Harvey
18.9
Haskell
13.7
Hodgeman
16.5
Jackson
25.1
Jefferson
30.7
Jewell
16.1
Johnson
21.0
Kearny
15.3
Kingman
23.5
Kiowa
14.5
Labette
15.5
Lane
14.1
Leavenworth
23.1
Lincoln
18.6
Linn
33.7
Logan
13.7
Lyon
16.8
Marion
20.1
Marshall
15.4
McPherson
14.0
Meade
15.2
Miami
27.5
Mitchell
9.7
Montgomery
16.5
Morris
23.7
Morton
16.9
Nemaha
15.9
Neosho
16.8
Ness
13.2
Norton
13.0
Osage
30.0
Osborne
14.3
Ottawa
22.7
Pawnee
12.0
Phillips
13.8
Pottawatomie
21.7
Pratt
12.4
Rawlins
14.6
Reno
17.8
Republic
17.9
Rice
16.2
Riley
14.8
Rooks
17.3
Rush
21.2
Russell
16.8
Saline
14.9
Scott
12.6
Sedgwick
19.1
Seward
16.2
Shawnee
17.7
Sheridan
15.9
Sherman
12.6
Smith
15.1
Stafford
19.8
Stanton
10.5
Stevens
15.1
Sumner
23.3
Thomas
11.4
Trego
18.8
Wabaunsee
27.7
Wallace
13.5
Washington
19.5
Wichita
12.0
Wilson
16.7
Woodson
23.1
Wyandotte
21.4
Value for Kansas (Minutes): 19.3
Data item: Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16 years+, 2014-2018
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS), 5-Year Estimates. The PRCS is part of the Census Bureau's ACS, customized for Puerto Rico. Both Surveys are updated every year.
Definition
Travel time to work refers to the total number of minutes that it usually took the person to get from home to work each day during the reference week. The elapsed time includes time spent waiting for public transportation, picking up passengers in carpools, and time spent in other activities related to getting to work.
Mean travel time to work is obtained by dividing the total number of minutes by the number of workers 16 years old and over who did not work at home. Mean travel time to work is rounded to the nearest tenth of a minute. For the complete definition, go to ACS subject definitions "Travel Time to Work."
Source and Accuracy
This Fact is based on data collected in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. A sample of over 3.5 million housing unit addresses is interviewed each year over a 12 month period. This Fact (estimate) is based on five years of ACS and PRCS sample data and describes the average value of person, household and housing unit characteristics over this period of collection.
Statistics from all surveys are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. Sampling error is the uncertainty between an estimate based on a sample and the corresponding value that would be obtained if the estimate were based on the entire population (as from a census). Measures of sampling error are provided in the form of margins of error for all estimates included with ACS and PRCS published products. The Census Bureau recommends that data users incorporate this information into their analyses, as sampling error in survey estimates could impact the conclusions drawn from the results. The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at Using margins of error. A more detailed explanation of margins of error and a demonstration of how to use them is provided below.
For more information on sampling and estimation methodology, confidentiality, and sampling and nonsampling errors, please see the Multiyear Accuracy (US) and the Multiyear Accuracy (Puerto Rico) documents at "Documentation - Accuracy of the data."
Margin of Error
As mentioned above, ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling error. The margin of error measures the degree of uncertainty caused by sampling error. The margin of error is used with an ACS estimate to construct a confidence interval about the estimate. The interval is formed by adding the margin of error to the estimate (the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (the lower bound). It is expected with 90 percent confidence that the interval will contain the full population value of the estimate. The following example is for demonstrating purposes only. Suppose the ACS reported that the percentage of people in a state who were 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the margin of error associated with this estimate was 0.7 percent. By adding and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate, we calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population 25 years and older having a bachelor's degree in a state falls somewhere between 20.6 percent and 22.0 percent.
