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Counties With the Shortest Commute in the United States (2026)

Skagway has the lowest commute time of any county in the United States, at 4.9 min, followed by Yakutat and Aleutians East. Source: Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024. The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2024 - Source: Census ACS 5-Year

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Shortest counties for commute time in the United States

Top 25 of 3144 counties with data.

Ranked by avg commute time (Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024), lowest first.

Shortest counties for commute time in the United States
RankCountyValue
1Skagway4.9 min
2Yakutat5.5 min
3Aleutians East5.6 min
4Northwest Arctic5.9 min
5Kusilvak6.3 min
6Nome6.3 min
7Aleutians West6.4 min
8Petersburg6.8 min
9Bethel7.4 min
10Hinsdale7.6 min
11Cimarron8.0 min
12Wrangell8.5 min
13Dillingham8.7 min
14Presidio9.1 min
15Bristol Bay9.2 min
16Chugach9.2 min
17Kodiak Island10.1 min
18Scott10.4 min
19Chattahoochee10.5 min
20Yukon-Koyukuk11.0 min
21Wichita11.0 min
22Norton11.0 min
23McIntosh11.3 min
24Red Willow11.3 min
25Box Butte11.3 min

How this ranking works

This page ranks every US county by avg commute time, sorted so the shortest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For commute time, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh commute time against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of avg commute time.

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