Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · MI · GEOID 26220002024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Detroit, Michigan
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 24.8 min one way; 12.0% worked from home, 65.5% drove alone, and 5.8% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip24.8 min±0.6 min MOE
Worked from home12.0%±0.6 pp MOE
Drove alone65.5%±0.9 pp MOE
60+ minute trip5.8%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 Detroit city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -1.0 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 Detroit city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 65.5%; 4.9% used public transit and 12.0% worked from home.
Each share uses 223,334 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Detroit city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 53th percentile among covered 500k+ places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is higher than about 53% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 87% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 68% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The 60+ minute share is higher than about 61% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Detroit city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 223,334 workers age 16+, including 196,481 workers with reported travel time and 26,853 home workers.
Population estimate638,530± 62 MOE
Workers age 16+223,334± 2,967 MOE
Workers with travel time196,481± 2,808 MOE
Estimated home workers26,853± 1,481 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 Michigan reports →Comparable Michigan commute records for Detroit city
No other Michigan place in the 500k+ population band met the same publication rule in this dataset.