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

Title Mean Commuting Time for Workers (5-year estimate) in Polk County, OR
Series ID B080ACS041053
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 2022-01-01
Last Updated 2023-12-07 11:23 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 24.815321477428180
2010-01-01 24.086186024614970
2011-01-01 24.339161781551110
2012-01-01 24.258961554248188
2013-01-01 24.531447507772200
2014-01-01 24.573811422824843
2015-01-01 25.088545654272494
2016-01-01 24.414172921337360
2017-01-01 24.557480463233220
2018-01-01 24.879321392609770
2019-01-01 25.805871431886750
2020-01-01 26.964720730239794
2021-01-01 27.096935474383860
2022-01-01 26.846882399368590

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