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About the Midwest: Livability

Travel Time to Work

National average: 25.3 minutes

Alliant Energy service territory

Rank

State

Average travel
time to work

6

Iowa

18.3 minutes

13

Wisconsin

21.4 minutes

18

Minnesota

22.3 minutes



State-by-state rankings

Rank

State

Average travel
time to work

1

North Dakota

16.1 minutes

2

South Dakota

16.3 minutes

3

Montana

17.6 minutes

3

Nebraska

17.6 minutes

5

Alaska

18.0 minutes

6

Iowa

18.3 minutes

7

Wyoming

18.6 minutes

8

Kansas

18.8 minutes

9

Idaho

20.5 minutes

10

Oklahoma

20.6 minutes

11

Arkansas

21.0 minutes

12

Vermont

21.2 minutes

13

Utah

21.4 minutes

13

Wisconsin

21.4 minutes

15

New Mexico

21.5 minutes

16

Oregon

22.1 minutes

17

Kentucky

22.2 minutes

18

Minnesota

22.3 minutes

19

Indiana

22.7 minutes

19

Maine

22.7 minutes

21

Ohio

22.8 minutes

22

Rhode Island

23.0 minutes

23

South Carolina

23.2 minutes

23

North Carolina

23.3 minutes

25

Missouri

23.5 minutes

25

Nevada

23.5 minutes

27

Tennessee

23.8 minutes

28

Michigan

23.9 minutes

28

Mississippi

23.9 minutes

30

Delaware

24.0 minutes

31

Alabama

24.1 minutes

32

Colorado

24.2 minutes

33

Connecticut

24.6 minutes

34

Louisiana

24.9 minutes

35

Texas

25.0 minutes

36

Arizona

25.1 minutes

37

New Hampshire

25.3 minutes

38

Pennsylvania

25.4 minutes

39

West Virginia

25.5 minutes

40

Florida

25.9 minutes

40

Washington

25.9 minutes

42

Hawaii

26.4 minutes

43

Virginia

26.8 minutes

44

Georgia

27.1 minutes

45

California

27.3 minutes

46

Massachusetts

27.4 minutes

47

Illinois

28.2 minutes

48

New Jersey

29.8 minutes

49

Maryland

31.1 minutes

50

New York

31.5 minutes



Source: 2007 American Community Survey, U.S. Census Bureau, August 2007.