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

Title Mean Commuting Time for Workers (5-year estimate) in Philadelphia County, PA
Series ID B080ACS042101
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 31.409468827659257
2010-01-01 31.506613333514817
2011-01-01 31.498012340020210
2012-01-01 31.760676770079208
2013-01-01 31.818971676861450
2014-01-01 32.227559481349950
2015-01-01 32.517890893152280
2016-01-01 32.738282817171180
2017-01-01 32.930163985143580
2018-01-01 33.413040616409184
2019-01-01 33.619913880322294
2020-01-01 33.425858126409786
2021-01-01 32.957998635203860
2022-01-01 32.776245640823250

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