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What's the Average Commute Time in Pacific Palisades?

This interactive map designed by the online team at the WNYC radio station shows the average commute time by ZIP code across the country.

The average commuter in Pacific Palisades spends nearly a half hour in the car driving between home and work every day, according to the above interactive map designed by the WNYC radio station.

The WNYC map shows how one-way daily commute times can vary by a minute or two depending on the neighborhood.

Commuters in Pacific Palisades spend an average of 27.4 minutes in the car. The average time has a margin of error of a little more than a minute. Click here to see the full WNYC story and interactive map.

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Census figures show that about 8.1 percent of U.S. workers have commutes of 60 minutes or longer—known as long commutes—and nearly 600,000 full-time workers had "megacommutes" of at least 90 minutes and 50 miles.

The average one-way daily commute for workers across the country is 25.5 minutes, and one in four commuters leave their county to work.

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— Matthew Sanderson contributed to this report.

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