ACS 2024 5-YEAR ESTIMATES↗ DIRECTIONAL CHANGE FROM 2021UPDATED JAN 29, 2026
COMMUTESHIFTHow America gets to work

SOURCE & FIELD GUIDE

Four tables. Two periods. Every formula visible.

Source files

2024 ACS Table-Based Summary File ↗

Why the Census Bureau asks about commuting ↗

Variables

B01003
Total population estimate.
B08301
Workers age 16+ by usual means of transportation to work, including working from home.
B08303
Workers who did not work from home, grouped by one-way travel time.
B08013
Aggregate travel time to work, used with B08303 to calculate a mean.

Release timing

The 2024 five-year table files and geography labels used here were published in the official Summary File directory on January 29, 2026. The estimates describe the 2020–2024 collection period.