Nearly 83,000 workers in the Washington region qualify as “super-commuters” – spending at least 90 minutes each way to and from their jobs.
They are part of a cadre of 3.7 million super-commuters nationally, according to the most recent (2022) figures from the U.S. Census Bureau as analyzed by Apartment List.
That 3.7 million figure is up about 600,000 from the year before, when many workers were doing their jobs from home owing to COVID.
“A record number [of employees] continue working from home; however, many employers appear to be shifting back to in-person or hybrid arrangements,” Apartment List analysts noted. “This is putting more commuters on roadways and transitways daily – including more super-commuters – and resuming the pre-pandemic trend.”
The Washington region’s 82,578 super-commuters in the 2022 figures represent 3 percent of all those going to work, slightly higher than the national rate of 2.7 percent.
The figures are less for the…