The typical U.S. commuter in 2000 left home between 6:30 a.m. and 8:29 a.m. and drove alone for 26 minutes to get to work, the....
The typical U.S. commuter in 2000 left home between 6:30 a.m. and 8:29 a.m. and drove alone for 26 minutes to get to work, the U.S. Census Bureau said today in a report based on Census 2000 results. Overall, people were leaving home earlier and spending more time in traffic in 2000 than in previous censuses.

According to the report about 53 percent of all workers headed to their jobs between 6:30 a.m. and 8:29 a.m. Another 20 percent of workers departed for work between midnight and 6:29 a.m, up 2 percentage points or 4.8 million workers from a decade earlier, the largest hike in any time period of the day.

Some other things you might note:

* Whites use public transit less than other racial groups.
* The number living in metropolitan areas increased.
* The number working in central cities decreased--more than half did not work in central cities.
* Carpooling is more popular in the Southwest while public transit is more popular in the Northeast.
* States without large metropolitan areas had large numbers walking to work (New York and DC also had high numbers of walkers).