Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · OH · GEOID 39498402024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Middletown, Ohio
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 24.2 min one way; 8.8% worked from home, 79.1% drove alone, and 4.5% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip24.2 min±1.8 min MOE
Worked from home8.8%±1.6 pp MOE
Drove alone79.1%±2.6 pp MOE
60+ minute trip4.5%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 Middletown 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 +3.8 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 Middletown city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 79.1%; 0.4% used public transit and 8.8% worked from home.
Each share uses 23,521 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Middletown city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 43th percentile among covered 25k–100k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 57% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 79% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 70% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 70% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Middletown city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 23,521 workers age 16+, including 21,459 workers with reported travel time and 2,062 home workers.
Population estimate51,617± 594 MOE
Workers age 16+23,521± 900 MOE
Workers with travel time21,459± 908 MOE
Estimated home workers2,062± 383 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 Ohio reports →Comparable Ohio commute records for Middletown city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.