America's Most Expensive Commute Cities

August 8, 2007

It's often said that the trip to work can kill you.
But if you live in Houston,
what really takes a beating is your wallet. There,
the average commuter spends 20.9%
of his annual household costs on getting to work.
He's not alone. Cleveland, Detroit,
Tampa, Fla., Kansas City, Mo., and Cincinnati
also landed on our list of the country's biggest cities where
transportation eats up a fifth or more of
household costs, according to a study by the
Surface Transportation Policy Partnership (STPP),
a nonprofit research firm,
which draws on 2003 Bureau of Labor Statistics data,
the most recent available.
The study looked at annual transit costs such as gas and tolls,
and public transit fare,
as well as money spent on car payments and maintenance.

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