Raleigh's traffic grew slightly worse last year

• Raleigh residents lost on average 23 hours of their time last year to traffic, according to the report.

Those numbers are based on city centers — "the densest areas that capture 20% of all trips within the city-connected area," per TomTom.

• But if you were to look at the metro area as a whole, the time drops to 9 minutes and 33 seconds — unchanged from 2023.
• Durham was not included in the study.

How it works: TomTom's report is based on a representative sample of data collected by "over 600 million devices" and "over 61 billion anonymous GPS data points around the world," the company says.

Yes, but: Raleigh's traffic still is much better than many other cities nationwide.

Zoom out: Of the 93 cities that TomTom studied, Raleigh had the 26th fastest commute times, posting similar commute speeds to Phoenix; Birmingham, Ala. and Salt Lake City.

• Charlotte, in comparison, ranked 52nd in the report, with six miles taking on average 12 minutes and 17 seconds to complete.
• The cities with the slowest commutes in the country last year were: New York, San Francisco and Honolulu.