Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · DE · GEOID 10245402024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Elsmere, Delaware
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 24.4 min one way; 9.9% worked from home, 79.9% drove alone, and 3.3% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip24.4 min±4.6 min MOE
Worked from home9.9%±4.8 pp MOE
Drove alone79.9%±6.6 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.3%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Elsmere town's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -0.6 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +3.3 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Elsmere town residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 79.9%; 3.1% used public transit and 9.9% worked from home.
Each share uses 2,852 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Elsmere town compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 47th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 53% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 59% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 85% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 81% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Elsmere town's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 2,852 workers age 16+, including 2,569 workers with reported travel time and 283 home workers.
Population estimate6,203± 24 MOE
Workers age 16+2,852± 326 MOE
Workers with travel time2,569± 289 MOE
Estimated home workers283± 142 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Delaware reports →Comparable Delaware commute records for Elsmere town
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.