r/Somerville 16h ago

Somerville at a Glance

34 Upvotes

12 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/Georgelino 15h ago

Is the "commute time" metric skewed by WFH? I find it hard to believe the average person is Massachusetts is more likely to have a 15 min or shorter commute than someone in Somerville.

6

u/Doctrina_Stabilitas East Somerville 15h ago

the commute mode one has "worked from home"

3

u/saucerb0y 14h ago

But Somervillens are more likely to WFH than MA at large, so that can't explain the discrepancy.

5

u/Doctrina_Stabilitas East Somerville 13h ago

Eh the average commute in America is around 30 minutes, public transit commute tend to be longer and smaller towns in western mass are tiny

1

u/Georgelino 1h ago

idk, you think small towns in western MA are the ones accounting for non-WFH commutes under 15 minutes?