Jan 13, 2025 - News
Richmond has some of the fastest driving times in the country
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Here's some much-needed good news for Richmond: we have some of the fastest driving times in the nation.
Driving the news: It took an average of just under 10 minutes to drive six miles in Richmond in 2024, one of the shortest times in the nation, per TomTom's annual Traffic Index.
- That means locals lose far fewer hours stuck in traffic than residents of nearly every other U.S. city.
- New York, of course, had the slowest drive time. It took them an average of about 30 minutes to drive 6 miles last year.
Yes, but: Traffic is traffic, and Richmonders still waste around 16 hours a year sitting in it, compared to New Yorkers' staggering 94 hours a year.
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.