If you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere — just consider extra time for travel.
Commuting to, from and around the “city so nice that they named it twice” can be a pain. Rush hour traffic, random street closures and mass transit delays are all daily grind nuisances.
But the harrowing hassle of hustling and busting isn’t limited to the city’s limits.
“Workers in New York State [have] the longest commute times,” stated an April 2024 report from the US Department of Energy.
The DOE, which manages the nation’s nuclear infrastructure and administers the country’s energy policy, used 2022 data on the average 9-to-5er’s one-way travel time to work to compile a list of the top 10 worst states for commuting.
Researchers determined that most New Yorkers spend approximately 33.2 minutes during their trek to the office.
And while riding in a train, bus or car for just over a half hour might not sound so terrible, the trip has yet earned the Empire State the No. 1 spot on the longest commute roster.
Straphangers in Maryland, New Jersey and the District of Columbia have it almost as bad.
The findings revealed that folks in each province, too, lose a little more than 30 minutes of their lives high-tailing it to their cubicles Monday through Friday.
DOE analysts attributed the lengthy jaunts around the densely populated states to “traffic and urban sprawl.”
The experts also noted that the average one-way commute time across the US is approximately 27 minutes.
But staffers in the Midwest have it the best.
“South Dakota and North Dakota had average commute times of less than 18 minutes,” read the report.
Workers in similarly provincial regions such as Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Montana also enjoy quickie shuffles just under the 20-minute mark.
However, some business bigwigs don’t mind a long haul.
NYC “super commuter” Susan Miller gladly hops on a plane every week to work as a full-time professor at the University of Michigan.
And hairdresser Kaitlin Jay, 30, told The Post she’s perfectly content spending nearly six hours commuting door-to-door from her home in Charlotte, North Carolina to work at an Upper West Side salon on a biweekly basis.
“I love what I do in New York and I love life in Charlotte,” she said. “I get the best of both worlds.”
