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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, followed by Yakutat and Aleutians East (data vintage 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 3222 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
2Yakutat5.5
3Aleutians East5.6
4Northwest Arctic5.9
5Kusilvak6.3
6Nome6.3
7Aleutians West6.4
8Petersburg6.8
9Bethel7.4
10Hinsdale7.6
11Cimarron8.0
12Wrangell8.5
13Dillingham8.7
14Presidio9.1
15Bristol Bay9.2
16Chugach9.2
17Kodiak Island10.1
18Scott10.4
19Chattahoochee10.5
20Yukon-Koyukuk11.0
21Wichita11.0
22Norton11.0
23McIntosh11.3
24Red Willow11.3
25Box Butte11.3

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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