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Table Data - Mean Commuting Time for Workers (5-year estimate) in Palo Alto County, IA

Title Mean Commuting Time for Workers (5-year estimate) in Palo Alto County, IA
Series ID B080ACS019147
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 9:43 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 16.470588235294116
2010-01-01 17.611695906432750
2011-01-01 17.449904580152673
2012-01-01 16.943916349809886
2013-01-01 16.947945845004668
2014-01-01 17.081355932203390
2015-01-01 16.823742637063887
2016-01-01 15.140269494146233
2017-01-01 15.301845819761128
2018-01-01 14.771674387822634
2019-01-01 15.276145710928320
2020-01-01 16.018829858776060
2021-01-01 16.274646253769426
2022-01-01 17.231234866828085
2023-01-01 17.682869829399394

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