Three quarters of UK workers 'half an hour from work'

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Three-quarters of UK workers have journeys to work of less than 30 minutes, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Its report highlights the discrepancies between those commuting to jobs in London and the rest of the nation.

Over half of Britons outside the capital have a work journey time of under 15 minutes, compared to only 18% in London.

In the last quarter of 2009, 71% of UK workers drove to work by car.

Of that, 76% of those outside London drove to work, compared to 35% in the capital, half of whom use public transport. In the rest of the UK, 9% of workers in the 16-64 age group use buses, trains or a metro system.

Nearly three-fifths of workers in the final quarter of 2009 lived and worked within the same local authority area. Some 10% get to work on foot.

London has a slightly higher proportion of people choosing to commute by bicycle.
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UK workers with journey times under 30 minutes

2002: Nation overall 78%, London 46%
2006: National 76%, London 45%
2009: National 75%, London 44%

(Source: ONS)

Earnings and changes

Those who earn more and work in management or professional positions tend to having longer journey times, the statistics suggest.

At the end of 2009 the median hourly earnings for those with commutes over an hour long to London was £18.80 while those whose commutes were under 15 minutes earned an average £9.60 per hour. In the rest of the UK, the figures were £14.30 and £8.30 per hour, respectively.
Graph showing duration of commutes in the UK

An Autumn 1999 Labour Force Survey by the ONS of the time taken to travel to work by employees or the self-employed (at a work site not within their own home) estimated that 66% of full-time workers but 71% of part-time workers took less than 30 minutes to get to work.

In the period from 2002 to 2009, 71% of full-time workers and 86% of part-time workers were taking under half an hour to reach work.

[kingofmcr]

2 minutes here

[DGP1]

it's 10 minutes by car for me but then I just cruise to work, taking my time and not getting in a rush (rather like my driving at work ).

[Lincox]

I know we earn over £8.30 per hour but there are a lot of people who would be over the moon at earning £8.30p per hour where I come from. That figure is likely also to deteriorate rapidly over the next couple of years as company,s jump on the tory bandwagon to cut costs, costs which they only see as manual wages.