Out-of-State and Long Commutes: 2011, By Brian McKenzie. February 2013

• “Among U.S. workers who did not work at home, 8.1 percent had commutes of 60 minutes or longer in 2011.
• An estimated 61.1 percent of workers with “long commutes” drove to work alone, compared with 79.9 percent for all workers who did not work at home.
• New York shows the highest rate of “long commutes” at 16.2 percent, followed by Maryland and New Jersey at 14.8 and 14.6 percent, respectively.
• The District of Columbia has the highest rate of out-of-state commuters among its resident workers at 25.2 percent, followed by Maryland at 18.3 percent.
• Among all people who work in the District of Columbia, 72.4 percent live outside the District of Columbia.”