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

Title Mean Commuting Time for Workers (5-year estimate) in Douglas County, WA
Series ID B080ACS053017
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 18.512553734969785
2010-01-01 18.897161188790026
2011-01-01 18.966787439613526
2012-01-01 19.189870379260682
2013-01-01 19.187021072796934
2014-01-01 19.627251649723560
2015-01-01 19.324410637556614
2016-01-01 18.586417617894615
2017-01-01 18.160992134121834
2018-01-01 18.371989543356136
2019-01-01 19.205352266521025
2020-01-01 19.993293631632600
2021-01-01 20.474948930222556
2022-01-01 21.702411438326930
2023-01-01 21.625202529660797

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