Oct 23, 2023 - News
Dallas commute times are shrinking
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The share of Dallas-area workers with relatively speedy commutes has increased compared to pre-pandemic times, per a new Axios analysis of census data.
Details: More Dallas-area workers had commutes under 45 minutes in 2022 than in 2019.
- The share of people with commutes longer than an hour dropped the most, from 9.3% of workers in 2019 to 8.1% in 2022.
The big picture: Commutes under 30 minutes became more commonplace between 2019 and 2022, report Axios' Alex Fitzpatrick and Alice Feng.
- 36.8% of U.S. workers had a commute of 15-29 minutes in 2022, up from 35.6% in 2019, per the U.S. Census Bureau's latest data.
Between the lines: These findings don't include employees who work from home.
- While the overall number of workers in the Dallas metro increased from 2019 to 2022, the number who commuted dropped from more than 3.5 million people to about 3.3 million people.