PDX Commute Compare · with Jen Nunnerley
Commute times around Portland, compared
Pick where you work and how you get there. See how long the trip takes from neighborhoods, cities and areas of Washington, Multnomah and Clackamas counties, and how long the people who live there say their commute takes.
Places farther than this are left out of the list. At 90, every place is shown. Estimates: check a trip planner.
Places
How these times are worked out
In plain wordsFrom the middle of a place's homes
Each trip starts where a place's homes are, worked out from every home in Metro's records (the same places as Property Tax Compare). A home at the edge of a big place can be several minutes nearer or farther.
Car: light traffic
Times use the speed limits and road types on OpenStreetMap, like a trip at a quiet hour. Rush hour usually adds time, most on the freeways into Portland. The Census figures below each place show what residents report, rush hour included.
Transit: a weekday morning
Times come from the agencies' own published timetables (), for trips leaving between 7 and 9 a.m. on . They include the walk to and from the stop and the wait. Half the trips in that window are faster than the time shown, half slower.
Bike: low-stress streets
Times keep to quieter streets, bike lanes and paths where they can, at an everyday riding pace. Hills slow a real ride more than the route planner allows for.
What residents report
The Census Bureau's American Community Survey asks people how long they usually take to get to work and how they get there. It covers all of their trips, not one job center, and it includes rush hour. The figures are survey estimates with margins of error.
Where they work
The Census Bureau's LEHD counts of where people live and work show which places the jobs held by a place's residents are in. They cover jobs in Oregon.
Sources
Checked by code before anything is publishedAbout these figures
Travel times on this page are estimates for comparing places. They come from a route planner using OpenStreetMap's roads and paths and the transit agencies' published timetables, from the middle of each place's homes to each job center. Car times assume light traffic; rush-hour trips usually take longer. Your own trip depends on the exact addresses, the time of day, traffic, weather, construction and service changes. Before you rely on a time, check it with a trip planner such as TriMet's. Census figures are survey estimates with margins of error. Jen is a licensed Oregon real estate broker; these figures are not a promise of any commute.
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