Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · KS · GEOID 20386502024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Lansing, Kansas
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 21.3 min one way; 12.0% worked from home, 75.9% drove alone, and 3.1% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip21.3 min±3.9 min MOE
Worked from home12.0%±4.6 pp MOE
Drove alone75.9%±6.3 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.1%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 Lansing city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +1.1 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +4.7 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 Lansing city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 75.9%; 0.0% used public transit and 12.0% worked from home.
Each share uses 4,665 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Lansing city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 28th 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 72% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 52% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Lansing city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 4,665 workers age 16+, including 4,103 workers with reported travel time and 562 home workers.
Population estimate11,246± 25 MOE
Workers age 16+4,665± 399 MOE
Workers with travel time4,103± 409 MOE
Estimated home workers562± 219 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 Kansas reports →Comparable Kansas commute records for Lansing city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.