20 cities where Americans have the longest commutes

Most working Americans commute about 26 minutes each way to and from work.

But when you live in one of these major US cities, you wind up spending more of your life commuting.

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Using data collected from the US Census Bureau, personal-finance site WalletHub ranked 116 of the most populated cities based on the average number of minutes residents spend traveling from home to work. Using that same data, Business Insider also looked at how people commute to and from work in each city.

Here's just how long the 20 cities with the longest commute times spend getting to work, and how:

Longest commute times 2017
Longest commute times 2017

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