How Far Is Your Commute To Work?

There’s a really great interactive map from the Washington Post detailing the commuting habits of million Americans who travel outside their county for work.

It comes from the U.S. Census’s 5-year survey of 38 million commuters, which asked its subjects, “At what location did this person work last week?”

The data includes people who might have traveled to work for a single event, like a conference. It also could include trucker or delivery drivers hauling cargo outside of their home county.

For instance, in Maine, the more north you go, the less likely it is that workers commuted outside their county.

Twenty-five percent of Cumberland County’s roughly 172,000 workers commute from someplace else. In Penobscot, 13 percent of the 74,343 workers did. Two percent of Aroostook County’s 30,323 workers commuted to another county. (The data apparently don’t include people who commuted to Canada.)

That’s likely due, at least in part, to southern Maine’s proximity to Boston.