This chart shows the 20 cities where Americans have the longest commute to work

Most working Americans commute about 25 minutes each way to and from work.

But when you live in one of these major US cities, you wind up spending more of your life commuting.

Using data collected from the US Census Bureau, personal-finance site WalletHub ranked 116 of the most populated cities based on the average number of minutes residents spend traveling from home to work. Using that same data, Business Insider also looked at how people commute to and from work in each city.

Here's how the 20 cities with the longest commute times stack up:

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