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Table Data - Mean Commuting Time for Workers (5-year estimate) in Cook County, IL

Title Mean Commuting Time for Workers (5-year estimate) in Cook County, IL
Series ID B080ACS017031
Source U.S. Census Bureau
Release Mean Commute Time (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Minutes
Date Range 2009-01-01 to 2023-01-01
Last Updated 2024-12-12 9:38 AM CST
Notes Mean commuting time is calculated by dividing the aggregate travel time to work for all workers (in minutes) by the total number of workers, 16-years old and older, who commute (ACS 5-year variables B08013_001E from table B08013 and B08012_001E from table B08012, respectively).

Multiyear estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) are "period" estimates derived from a data sample collected over a period of time, as opposed to "point-in-time" estimates such as those from past decennial censuses. ACS 5-year estimate includes data collected over a 60-month period. The date of the data is the end of the 5-year period. For example, a value dated 2014 represents data from 2010 to 2014. However, they do not describe any specific day, month, or year within that time period.

Multiyear estimates require some considerations that single-year estimates do not. For example, multiyear estimates released in consecutive years consist mostly of overlapping years and shared data. The 2010–2014 ACS 5-year estimates share sample data from 2011 through 2014 with the 2011–2015 ACS 5-year estimates. Because of this overlap, users should use extreme caution in making comparisons with consecutive years of multiyear estimates.

Please see "Section 3: Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates" on publication page 13 (file page 19) of the 2018 ACS General Handbook for a more thorough clarification.
DATE VALUE
2009-01-01 31.904023371090750
2010-01-01 31.777562889709124
2011-01-01 31.810629713885230
2012-01-01 31.754470046082950
2013-01-01 31.653878091802707
2014-01-01 31.965672409247112
2015-01-01 32.337452315970154
2016-01-01 32.589334278991400
2017-01-01 32.909089330067914
2018-01-01 33.260692152123100
2019-01-01 33.442386273501626
2020-01-01 33.174551455049500
2021-01-01 32.686349353364380
2022-01-01 32.317033571381200
2023-01-01 31.851872920229823

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