Boston Commute is 3rd Worst In the Country

That headline was not a surprise I'm sure. But are you curious which two cities have it worse when it comes to the worst daily drive to work. The Boston commute has been a nightmare for decades but 2 cities even have us beat.

Geotab.com ran the numbers by gathering data from the American Community Survey. They measured real commute times to see how long it takes to get to work. For Boston, they found the average drive to be about 40 minutes. Seems low to me. What do you think?

A very fortunate 36% in Boston are said to have a commute under 30 minutes. 87% say their drive is within 1 hour. The number that surprised me the most is they say only 13% have a daily commute that takes them over an hour. So that's Boston. Who has it worse?

Obviously New York City took the top prize here. With almost a million commuters (they have the number specifically at 868,268), almost 90% are in the car for up to an hour.

Coming in at 2nd was Washington, D.C. That won't be a shock either to anyone who's ever had to drive through the nation's capital. The average commute time for DC area residents is 41 minutes.

Geotab also analyzed public transit times too since all three of these cities have so many who have ditched the car to get to work. Boston fared much better in that category. The worst cities for public transit according to their analysis? Los Angeles, Atlanta and Dallas.

The numbers are out from Zumper and it's no surprise to anyone who lives in Boston. We pay too much for rent. The group ran the data on one bedroom rents in the biggest cities in America and Boston came in at #5 overall in the United States. The average rent for a 1BR place in Boston? $2,750. A 2 bedroom apartment goes for about $3,400.

So who else pays through the roof to have a roof over their heads? Here's the top 10 highest median rent prices for a 1 bedroom apartment.

[Source: Zumper]

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