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FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Fairfield County residents have some of the longest commutes in the country, according to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau recently.
How Long Does It Take You To Get To Work, Fairfield?
View ResultsHow Long Does It Take You To Get To Work, Fairfield?
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A few steps. I work from home.
6% -
About 10 minutes. I work close to home.
13% -
About 30 minutes. I have an average commute.
13% -
About an hour. I have a longer commute.
25% -
More than 90 minutes. I'm a mega-commuter.
43%
The study focused on the number of “mega-commuters,” or those who travel more than 90 minutes and 50 miles one-way to get to work each day. More than 586,000 people or 0.8 percent of American commuters met those criteria, the bureau says.
The average commute nationwide was about 25.5 minutes, the report said.
The Fairfield County-to-Manhattan trip was listed as the fourth-worst “mega-commuter flow” in the country, or a common trip with a high percentage of mega-commuters. On average, the commute from Fairfield County to New York County took 104.2 minutes and spanned 60.4 miles.
Even those who worked within Fairfield County were in for long commutes. About 2.6 percent of the people whose jobs were in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk metropolitan area qualified as mega-commuters, according to the Census Bureau.
The study also found that mega-commuters were more likely to take public transportation or carpool. Overall about 81 percent of Americans drive to work alone, while 9.5 percent carpool and 5 percent use public transportation. Only about 68 percent of mega-commuters drive alone, with 14.3 percent carpooling and 11.3 using public transportation.
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Comments (1)
Mostly it depends on traffic. Door to door it's 10 miles. Some days it's 45 minutes or even and hour and other days it's about 25-30 minutes. On the weekends I can make it in less than 15 minutes. I think every "crazy" driver lives within the same 10 miles as me. Weaving in and out of traffic, cutting me off just as I'm about to exit; going thru gas stations to cut ahead of 10 cars; going up and down ramps on I-95. It's just unbelievable, and never a cop in sight.