Queensland workers have the longest commute of all the states and territories, new figures show.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics crunched the 2016 Census numbers to calculate commuting distances.
It found the average travel distance from home to work across the country was 16km, with almost three-quarters of all Australians having to commute a distance of less than 20km.
Queenslanders had the longest average commuting distance (16.6 km), followed by NSW (16.3 km).
Those in the Australian Capital Territory had the shortest average commute (11.7 km), which is likely due to its small land area compared with the other states and territories.
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In terms of capital cities, people in Brisbane (16.7 km) and Melbourne (16.2 km) had the longest average distances to their place of work, while those in Darwin and Adelaide had the shortest (12.8 km and 13.1 km respectively).
People working outside of Perth in WA had the longest average commuting distance across the whole of Australia (20.4 km).
