Datasets / Drive times / Travel
Drive time to the nearest regional airport
Small-hub and nonhub primary airports: scheduled passenger service with more than 10,000 boardings a year, but under 0.25% of national traffic.
- 337
- regional airports mapped
- 50 min
- median drive for US residents
- 9%
- of residents within 15 min
- 28%
- within 30 min
- 60%
- within an hour
Counties are shaded by the drive time within which half of their residents reach the nearest one. Dots mark the regional airports.
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Source
- Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data, CY 2025Federal Aviation Administration · Public domain
- OurAirports airport data (coordinates)OurAirports · Public domain
Retrieved Oct 2026.
How drive times are measured
Every 2020 census block group (about 240,000 neighborhoods) starts from its population center and drives the OpenStreetMap road network to the nearest of the regional airports. Speeds come from posted limits where they are mapped and typical speeds by road type elsewhere, with a small delay at each intersection. They are free-flow times: no traffic. Ferries count at their scheduled duration.
Counties and tracts show the population-weighted median of their block groups, so half of residents are at or under the time shown. Searches stop at 3 hours. Puerto Rico and a few dozen roadless places in Alaska aren't covered.
- Road networkOpenStreetMap contributors (Geofabrik extract) · ODbL
- Centers of Population by block group, 2020U.S. Census Bureau · Public domain