Commuting

A total of three fifths of economically active Czechs work in the town or a village where they also reside, while two fifths commute. Mainly people from villages and small towns commute. More than a half of economically active people (56%) travel between home and work in less than 20 minutes whilst exactly a quarter manage to complete a journey between home and work in less than10 minutes. Another group of more than a quarter of the employed 28% take between twenty and forty minutes to get to work and the remaining 16 % travel to work for an even longer, whilst 3% need more than an hour to complete one journey. Most people use public transport (35%) and fewer by car (28%). Those who live close to their workplace usually walk (24%) and some cycle (10%) whilst one journey between home and work does not exceed twenty minutes and almost never exceed half an hour. Use of a car or public transport is strongly affected by the accessibility of public transport, social status and material conditions of the particular individual and their household.