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Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16 years+, 2014-2018 - (Minutes)
County
Value
Alamance
23.8
Alexander
24.1
Alleghany
24.3
Anson
28.3
Ashe
25.7
Avery
21.5
Beaufort
24.6
Bertie
25.7
Bladen
24.4
Brunswick
24.2
Buncombe
20.1
Burke
21.9
Cabarrus
27.8
Caldwell
24.1
Camden
32.8
Carteret
23.2
Caswell
30.7
Catawba
22.4
Chatham
29.6
Cherokee
24.1
Chowan
29.3
Clay
23.3
Cleveland
24.0
Columbus
26.3
Craven
20.8
Cumberland
21.0
Currituck
37.2
Dare
21.1
Davidson
24.8
Davie
26.2
Duplin
25.8
Durham
22.8
Edgecombe
22.5
Forsyth
21.7
Franklin
32.8
Gaston
26.0
Gates
37.1
Graham
29.7
Granville
28.5
Greene
26.5
Guilford
21.6
Halifax
24.6
Harnett
29.7
Haywood
23.1
Henderson
21.2
Hertford
26.1
Hoke
27.5
Hyde
21.1
Iredell
25.8
Jackson
19.9
Johnston
30.4
Jones
27.8
Lee
24.8
Lenoir
22.0
Lincoln
29.7
Macon
21.3
Madison
28.6
Martin
24.7
McDowell
23.6
Mecklenburg
26.2
Mitchell
24.6
Montgomery
23.5
Moore
24.4
Nash
22.2
New Hanover
20.2
Northampton
26.1
Onslow
21.2
Orange
22.9
Pamlico
29.2
Pasquotank
28.1
Pender
28.3
Perquimans
32.4
Person
31.7
Pitt
20.9
Polk
27.0
Randolph
23.8
Richmond
22.3
Robeson
24.2
Rockingham
25.9
Rowan
24.8
Rutherford
25.8
Sampson
25.1
Scotland
22.0
Stanly
26.3
Stokes
29.1
Surry
24.8
Swain
18.1
Transylvania
25.2
Tyrrell
30.2
Union
29.5
Vance
23.7
Wake
25.1
Warren
28.4
Washington
24.8
Watauga
20.2
Wayne
22.0
Wilkes
24.6
Wilson
21.2
Yadkin
26.5
Yancey
28.0
Value for North Carolina (Minutes): 24.5
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.
