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

Title Mean Commuting Time for Workers (5-year estimate) in Essex County, MA
Series ID B080ACS025009
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 26.981909265579350
2010-01-01 27.196427216648868
2011-01-01 27.505657434983470
2012-01-01 27.590536464944048
2013-01-01 28.037319279459506
2014-01-01 28.518915182982905
2015-01-01 28.974739010950450
2016-01-01 29.255719639993018
2017-01-01 29.832602440664310
2018-01-01 30.151321443919210
2019-01-01 30.442389247646670
2020-01-01 30.231007714222390
2021-01-01 29.571289529775110
2022-01-01 29.143956053121013
2023-01-01 28.905568117580554

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