How Much Do Americans Travel? Daily Trips, Travel Time, International Trips and Household Trip Spending from US Federal Survey and Administrative Data, 1969–2025

Statistics on how much Americans travel are scattered across household surveys, time-use diaries, mobile-device panels, border counts and expenditure surveys, each with its own definition of a trip. We assemble the latest public releases of each and report them side by side without pooling definitions. In the 2022 National Household Travel Survey the average person aged 5 and older made 2.28 trips and travelled 28.55 miles a day, or 830 trips a year; daily trips were 47% below the 4.30 of 1995, while the average trip, at 12.56 miles, was the longest of any survey year, and 26.0% of people made no trip on the travel day. In the American Time Use Survey, people aged 15 and older spent 59.4 minutes a day travelling in 2025, against 74.4 minutes in 2003. The one-way commute averaged 27.2 minutes in 2024 in the American Community Survey. US citizens made 109.3 million international trips in 2025, 32.0 per 100 residents and 10.1% more than in 2019. Summing 12 trip items in the Consumer Expenditure Surveys, the average household spent at least USD 2,758 on trips in 2024, 3.5% of all spending, led by lodging (USD 906) and airline fares (USD 682); the top income fifth spent 8.6 times as much on airline fares as the lowest. Hotel guests in the US booked 30.57 days before check-in in 2025, whereas residents flying abroad began planning 109 days ahead. All inputs are public.