Roughly 43 percent of workers in the Denver area reported spending 30 minutes or more on their commute last year, data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows, which is higher than the rest of the nation.

The statistics in the 2015 American Community Survey show 15 percent of workers in the metro spent 40 to 59 minutes getting to their jobs in 2015, while about 8 percent traveled for an hour or longer to the workplace.

The data was part of findings released on Thursday for more than 40 demographic and economic topics gathered throughout the nation.

The Denver-area is defined at the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro area and workers are defined as those 16 years or older who do not work at home. The statistics did not specify the transportation methods the workers used.

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Amy Ford, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation, said the Denver-area census data jibes with state data that shows commuters, for the most part, spend less than 30 minutes traveling to their jobs.

“That is a basic rule of thumb right now for our commute times,” Ford said.

She explained, however, that Colorado in its entirety, and specifically Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs, has one of the nation’s worst levels of reliability for consistent commute times, sitting at 28 out of 46 states ranked. That means a 30-minute commute likely won’t be a 30-minute commute every day.

In the Denver-area, nine percent of workers had a commute of 9 minutes or less while 25 percent traveled 10 to 19 minutes to get to their jobs, the census data shows.

Last year, The Associated Press found people with jobs in Denver, Aurora and Lakewood who drive alone took 26 minutes to get to work, according to a nationwide analysis of traffic congestion. Nationally, the average commute time for solo drivers was 25.8 minutes.