Americans spent longer getting to work in 2024, and a growing share faced journeys lasting at least an hour each way, according to U.S. Census Bureau commuting estimates. The figures document the time workers spend traveling, although they do not establish why people accept those journeys or how much choice they have. The mean one-way commute reached 27.2 minutes in 2024, up from 26.8 minutes in 2023. Meanwhile, 9.3% of workers had one-way travel times of at least 60 minutes, compared with 8.9% a year earlier. That puts the national average alongside a more demanding experience for nearly one in ten workers. Driving alone remained the dominant way of reaching work. Its share held at 69.2%, unchanged from 2023. Public transportation’s share increased from 3.5% to 3.7%, while the proportion working from home fell from 13.8% to 13.3%. These measures describe different parts of the commuting picture. The travel-time figures show longer journeys, while the transportation figures show how workers reached their jobs—or whether they worked at home. Taken together, they do not demonstrate that declining home-based work caused the increase in commuting times. Nor do the national figures identify whether housing costs, job locations, transport availability or personal preferences explain an individual worker’s journey. They cannot establish that a longer commute represents a willing trade-off rather than a constraint. There is also a break in the historical series: the Census Bureau excludes 2020 estimates from these graphics because pandemic-related nonresponse affected the survey, leading it to release experimental estimates for that year. The supported conclusion is narrower than the idea that Americans simply regard long commutes as normal. In 2024, average journeys lengthened and hour-long trips became more common. Understanding what workers could realistically change requires evidence about their local housing, employment and transportation options.