Travel to Work Survey results
Here you’ll be able to find this years Travel to Work Survey results.
In March 2026, over 20,000 people from 189 organisations participated in the Travel to Work Survey. This is very similar to 2025 (20,015) and 2024 (20,017).
These results cover the West of England as a whole – Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, and South Gloucestershire combined – and provide an overview of how people across the region are travelling to work.
However, travel patterns vary between the three local authority areas and some of these variations are masked when the data is viewed at a regional level. To see how travel to work looks in your local area, please see the individual local authority breakdowns below.
Headline results
1. The % of people spending the majority of their time at the workplace remained the same. 71% of people say they are spending the majority of their working hours at a workplace while 26% are spending the majority of their working hours at home. In 2025 the figures were 71% and 27% respectively and in 2024 they were 64% and 33%.
2. Hybrid working remains popular. The mean is 3.1 days/week at a workplace and 1.4 days/week at home.
2.1 96% of people go into work at least 1 day a week and 66% go into work 3 or more days a week. This is very similar to 2025 (95% and 67%).
Midweek is still when the majority of people are going into the office. Tuesday is still the busiest day with 64% (down from 67% in 2025) and Friday is still the quietest with 40% (down from 41% in 2025).
2.2 61% of people continue to work at home at least 1 day a week (this is up from 61% in 2025). 23% are working from home 3 or more days a week (this is down from 24% in 2025).
3. 52% of respondents are commuting by personal motorvehicle. 46% are driving alone by car (up from 44% in 2025), 5% are car sharing (down from 7% in 2025) and 1% are travelling by motorbike/moped (same as 2025).
4. 23% of respondents are commuting by active travel. This figure is slightly lower than 2025 (24%). 12.4% are walking and 10.5% are cycling into work (the figures for 2025 were 13% and 11% respectively).
5. 18% of respondents are commuting by public transport. This is the same as 2025. 12% are taking the bus and 6% are taking the train (the same split for 2025).
6. 3% of respondents are working all the time from home. This is the same as in 2025 but down from 4% in 2024 and 5% in 2023. It is still much higher than pre-Covid surveys where less than 0.5% were working only from home.
7. 3% of respondents commute by e-travel (predominantly by personal e-bike). This figure has increased over previous years (2%).
8. Those commuting by train are travelling into work the least – on average, 2.4 days per week (up from 2.3 days in 2025). Those walking into work go in the most often – on average 3.6 days per week followed closely by car sharing (3.5 days), cycling (3.4 days), car driver-alone (3.2 days) and then bus (3.1 days).
9. New for 2026: 1 in 4 commuters combine their journey with caring responsibilities. 25% of respondents said they sometimes (11%) or always (14%) combine their commute with care-related travel such as the school run. Of these, 57% travel by car driver-alone to work, higher than the car driver-alone rate across all commuters (46%).
10. One-way journey times and one-way journey distances have remained the same in 2026. One-way journey time (mean) is 38 minutes. One-way journey distance (mean) is 12 miles.
11. People who walk, cycle or scoot to work have higher journey satisfaction than those who use public transport or road-based transport (car, motorbike). People are slightly more satisfied with their journey to work than from work, this is across most travel modes. Satisfaction rates for working from home remain very high at 94% (compared to 95% in 2025).
What people told us
Each year, survey respondents have the opportunity to share comments on their travel to work, including any barriers they face and suggestions for improvement. These comments provide valuable, detailed insight that sits alongside the quantitative results.
We’ve analysed the comments to identify the key themes raised by respondents across the region. Read the full comments analysis report to see what people told us.
Travel to Work survey comment analysis report
Results by participating UA area
Please click on an image below to find out more about the combined survey results for organisations based in Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
