How many miles a week do you travel in your vehicle/s, on average?

[Stacey]

I seem to average around 110-120 miles per week.

Our town is not huge (pop around 45,000) but I do make quite a few trips a day:

Home to first job and back.
Home to school and second job and back.
Home to school and back.
Home to after school actitivity and back (not everyday)


And a bit of running around at the weekend on errands or kids sporting events or visiting family or going to the beach etc.

[elizabeth]

I seem to average around 110-120 miles per week.

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Home to park-n-ride and park-n-ride to home every day. Take Sophia to swimming 2x a week, and at least one child to soccer once a week, and some errands on weekends, about 100 miles a week. It will be more in soccer season because of the away games.

I have no idea how many miles dh puts on his car, I'll guess 300 a month. He walks to the school to either work or volunteer, but most of the errands are run in his car (grocery shopping, soccer practice, etc).

[Katatonic]

and have a round trip of 45 miles to and from work three times per week. Add to that school drop off/pick up two days, after school activities and running around at the weekend, I'm probably averaging close to 300 miles per week. I know it's roughly 2000 km per month anyway. Petrol is hideously expensive right now, and I would love to use public transport more but it is also very pricey and not too reliable..............

[A_Marie]

My job entails driving and I am putting 1000 miles a month on my car.

I am OVER driving.

[Storymama]

I don't wanna talk about it.

Okay, I will . . . . I drive 145 miles just on Thursdays, and I think I matched it yesterday - usually I get away with a bit less on Tuesday, but not yesterday (read: some people need to make sure they have everything they need when they ask for special errands.) I am getting seriously burnt out with all the schlepping not directly related to my own schoolwork. My attitude is kind of in the toilet at the moment.

I think I drive about 2,000 miles a month, at least, right now. At least, thankfully, I am putting those miles on a long paid off car that gets decent gas mileage still, and that I don't really care is in high miles . . . it'll turn over 200,000 miles soon.

Stupid commuting.

Jon puts very few miles on his truck - about 3 miles to work, and back. I suppose he takes it to town and back once or twice a week, for his second job or for errands. Let's call it 200 - 300 miles per month. That thing is NOT very efficient on gas, so he takes my car if it's available for longer hauls.

[Peggyann]

I drive 64 miles a day monday thru friday getting Mike to and from work (16 there, 16 back, 16 there, 16 back)

add in Aidan to school, errands, going to the Y

about 350 miles a week or so

~PA~

[tumblewieds]

I average about 800 miles a month, but that includes trips to my mom's and to see my in-laws. I would say I do any where from 100-150 a week, on average.

[Sarah]

I seem to average around 110-120 miles per week.



Me personally is about .... oh, maybe 10. Our car sees about 30 miles a week, maybe 40. My husband's office is only a mile or so away.

[Brenda]

I walk most places, unless I am doing real estate showings. Non-real estate driving is about 8-10 miles a week (each girl to and from dance and a trip to the grocery store). I go to the city once every month or two, and that is 35 miles each way.

Work related driving might be zero to three hundred miles. It is never the same two weeks in a row.

[lunita]

I seem to average around 110-120 miles per week.

Our town is not huge (pop around 45,000) but I do make quite a few trips a day:

Home to first job and back.
Home to school and second job and back.
Home to school and back.
Home to after school actitivity and back (not everyday)


And a bit of running around at the weekend on errands or kids sporting events or visiting family or going to the beach etc.

20-30 miles a day on my car, 15-40 on dh's (his work is about 8 miles away, and he likes to come home for lunch.) We drive everywhere. Most of my miles are getting kids to and from school -- the schools are about 3 miles away, but I go there and back in the morning, and then there and back at 11:10 to pick up Maia and then there and back at 2:30 to pick up Amanda, so that's 18 miles right there, if I do nothing else. I try to combine trips out with picking up or dropping off kids, and nothing that I need to go to tends to be more than 5 miles away, but it still adds up. We're deep in suburbia and nothing is really close enough to walk to.

[lisabelle]

Maybe around 75 miles a week. I take Matt to school every day, go to school myself, go home and do chores, pick up Matt and back home. We actually only live a little over a mile from Matt's school and maybe three miles from my school, so the 75 miles includes all evening meetings and random errand running.

Dh drives more like 125 miles a week--10 miles to work, 10 miles back, baseball practice and I think that's about it.

[Artemis]

I drive to work 3 days a week, it's 18 miles each way. I drive to school 2 days a week and that's about 15 miles each way. Those 2 things, plus errands and activities on the weekends ends up being about 1000 miles a month for us, which is actually low mileage for those living here in LA.

[Jengirl]

ON the weekends when we run errands and pick up/drop off S-DD, we drive about 100 miles.

I'm very lucky, we don't have to drive much day to day... all over our cars have over 100,000 miles on them.

[~PQ]

Probably about 10-15 miles a week.... thats now, in the summer The Road opens all the way to the glacier and that's about 50 miles long and we go down it quite often to berry pick, find fishing spots and hiking trails, picinic at the glacier, etc. not really to the very end that often but usually at least 10 miles or so out, so our average will go up then.

[Nancy]

I actually think that's a very valid and important point to tack on. My mileage varies widely by how many home health patients I have and where they are (I range from a mile away to 40 miles away). I probably average 2-300 miles per week or less, BUT, most of my trips are traffic free, so a 30 mile drive takes me right at 30 minutes. Trip to the grocery store is a few minutes, (but it's also 5 miles or so), etc. I'm really only rarely in traffic, and that's when I am FORCED to go into larger towns (which I avoid).

[Hobbes]

hmmm about 8 miles a day for taking emma to school that would be about 3 days a week since we carpool 3-4times a week. Add about an average of 60 miles a week in errands and visits to gparents and family I'd say about 100 a week.

[lunita]

A related question could be.....how many hours a week do you spend in your car?

Because looking here, I don't have an excessive amount of miles, but with city driving, it ends up being 2.25 - 4 hours a day in the car. :(

As soon as school gets out, I'm going to start biking to work. I can put M on the trail-a-bike, and then put the little guy and the puppy in the bike trailer (is that insane? or should I try to train Gus to run along side the bike?). I'm going to park at the shopping center down the BIG HILL from my house, and bike from there.

and my driving is all suburban, so there's no traffic but the speed limits are generally 25-35 mph so 25 miles usually means 50 minutes in the car.

(and omg, just to stick this somewhere...this morning I was going 35 mph on the nearest cross street which has a 30 mph limit and a guy started tailgating me, just inches behind me I think! He apparently thought that 5 miles over the speed limit was WAYYYY too slow. I did what I've done before with people who think it is okay to speed through my neighborhood and slowed down to the limit. I really pissed him off and he actually sped past me at the corner and took the left hand turn BEFORE me on this little two lane road. What the heck are people thinking???? and um, maybe I shouldn't have slowed down. What if he purposely crashed into me or something?)

[~PQ]

A related question could be.....how many hours a week do you spend in your car?

Because looking here, I don't have an excessive amount of miles, but with city driving, it ends up being 2.25 - 4 hours a day in the car. :(

As soon as school gets out, I'm going to start biking to work. I can put M on the trail-a-bike, and then put the little guy and the puppy in the bike trailer (is that insane? or should I try to train Gus to run along side the bike?). I'm going to park at the shopping center down the BIG HILL from my house, and bike from there.


LOL well probably about 15 minutes a week here... BUT it takes me 12 hours on a ferry to get to the other side of the sound, and I just took 6 planes to go to DIsneyland so it balances out somewhere ;)

[jump4joy]

50 - 100 a week in the winter, 0 - 50 a week in the summer. In the summer I can bike more places with the kids, I don't make them bike in the nasty sleety stuff that's falling out of our skies right now, though I bike to work myself. When we have a spate of good weather, the car just sits there, except Asa has one rollerskating class a week that's not in a bikeable location (but she won't have that in the summer.)

Sadly, our karate dojo is moving from its current, very bikeable location to a place that's about 10 miles away and in a really bad place to bike (right next to a major freeway interchange, no safe roads), so very unfortunately our mileage will go up. We've talked about switching dojos, but the kids are way too enthusiastic about this one. I'm very bummed about this! I had a talk with our sensei about it, but bikeability is still not really on many business owners' radar screens yet.

[Jill]

I have to drive EVERYWHERE but I wish there were feasable options because I would love NOT to.
Oh well. At least I almost never encounter any traffic, so my time in the car isn't so bad.

[sarahrose]

Probably around 50-75 or so. We usually will drive one car a day and try to carpool with each other frequently. But now that sports are starting up we'll drive a bit more. But I don't think any more than 75-80 miles a week.

We have 2 cars but try to alternate cars as mine gets better gas mileage. If dh knows that he will be working late he comes home with me at luch and we do a trade and he drives himself home. In the warmer months (probably starting relativley soon) he'll take his bike and ride it home.

[Anne]

Hmmm, 90/week back and forth to preschool (3x) and down to the homeschool resource center (2x) then add another 30 or so for miscellaneous errands, so let's say it's usually 125-150/week. Then it's more if we go visit anyone further out.

My husband takes the bus to work, but still has a bit of a drive to the park and ride and back each day. I'll have to ask him how far that is--probably about 5 miles each way.

[Mumbly]

I'd like to say I don't drive very many miles per week, but I know I do. I drive at least 50 miles each week just taking Amye and Nathan to school and work, that doesn't include trips to the stores, bank, or if I drive to work. I'd guess I drive an average of 200 miles a week-some weeks I drive very little other weeks I drive a lot. This week we've taken Nathan out to see the baby and that's about 20 or so miles away so this week I've driven a lot of miles. My cousin usually drives to work, but sometimes I do and depending on where we are that day it can be up to 30 miles one way.
Dh drives a minimum of 250 miles each week just to work and back and that doesn't include any other driving. It's about a 25 mile drive one way and it takes about 30 minutes. Auna drives about 200 miles per week to and from work and school plus who knows how much driving she does running around with friends. One school is 17 miles away, the other school is 10 miles away and work is about 15 miles away.

[Holly]

I drive 4 miles each way to work, so 8 miles a day, but probably 3 days/week I come home for lunch--so 8X5=40+24=64. Evan's baseball just started and I probably drive another 60 miles a week between practices and games. Including errands, visiting grandparents, I would say between 140-150 miles/week

[Debra]

I seem to average around 110-120 miles per week.

Our town is not huge (pop around 45,000) but I do make quite a few trips a day:

Home to first job and back.
Home to school and second job and back.
Home to school and back.
Home to after school actitivity and back (not everyday)


And a bit of running around at the weekend on errands or kids sporting events or visiting family or going to the beach etc.

I just calculated, and I average 100-110 miles a week (not counting weekend activity which is quite low). I fill up approximately every 10 days to two weeks, depending on that weekend activity. I can't believe I'm still getting about 29 MPG from my '98 Civic (w/165,000 miles), about ½ city driving and ½ freeway. :thumbsup: I need to replace the car soon but can't deal with getting any less gas mileage, I'm very spoiled. :smile:

[Meagan]

[QUOTE=Stacey;16738]I seem to average around 110-120 miles per week.

QUOTE]

Myself personally, not too many. The boys' school, when we drive, is about 5 blocks away. that's the only place I regularly go every day. I probably drive 10 miles on top of that every week, going here and there (grocery store, etc). ETA: Thinking further, this isn't really a fair estimate because we go downtown a couple of times a month (10-ish miles one way) and to Michigan to visit family every couple of months (180 miles round-trip), so I guess it would be something like--200 miles a month?

My husband drives a LOT, a really excessive amount, because his work requires him to be on-site at people's homes and businesses. So one day he might be downtown and then in the far north burbs and then downtown again. I really think they need to work on they do scheduling to cut down on driving.

[Kari]

I seem to average around 110-120 miles per week.



Now that Erik is in school and I don't have to drive him to/from preschool 3 days each week I really don't drive much at all.

Sunday: Church & back - 8 miles total
Monday: Church & back - 8 miles total
Tuesday: K's school & back - 12 miles total
Wednesday: Church & back - 8 miles total
Random errands: 2-3 trips per week @ 5-10 miles per trip = 10-30 miles or so

So I guess it ranges from around 50 to 80 miles per week.

[cinnamon]

This is so illuminating! One of the reasons we moved back into town (and gave up living on a beautiful piece of land in the country) was because we wanted to really cut back on our driving. We have become so ruthless that as I was totaling up our numbers I was thinking, wow we drive far to go to some of these places and I need to see if we can find a library, sports etc closer to us!

On a typical week, DH and I combined drive about 125 miles per week. This includes:

Work for him (2.5 miles away)
OT/Clinic for Q once a week (13 miles away)
Big library once a week (7.5 miles away)
Soccer once a week (7.5 miles away)
Swim class twice a week (5.5 miles away)
"Far" playground once a week (4.5 miles away)
Church once a week (3.5 miles away)
Plus misc. stuff, like we usually walk to the playground closest to us (1 mile away) but sometimes we drive, and I drive to the store (which is only .5 mile away) when I do our grocery shopping every 2 weeks.

If we visit friends/family or go to different playgrounds our total goes up.... our farthest friends live 20-30 miles away, our ILs live 10 miles away, cool playgrounds are 7-10 miles away.

Quin will be in school this fall, which is 2.5 miles away so that will add 25 miles/week, but we will also eliminate the weekly OT clinic trip and swim classes, so it cancels out.

Compare that to when we lived on the farm, and DH *alone* was driving 60 miles per day to and from work, so 300 miles/week. Quin was also attending preschool in town 3 times/week (add another 180 miles). Add in trips to the grocery store (20 miles away) and we were averaging over 500 miles per week. Damn. :eek:

More than you ever wanted to know, lol. :asleep:

[Cindy]

If I average everything out it comes to about 600 miles per week. I drive 45 miles one way five days per week for work, and I live close to nothing, so extra miles inevitably get tacked on. Hate it.

[riversprite]

Oh gosh, I have no idea!
Marc doesn't drive to work.
I drive to the kid's classes 2-3x a week and it's usually about 15-20minutes one way.
I drive to Shannon's once a week and that's 15-20minutes each way.
Random errands, trips to the gym for me and playdates rounds out our lives and I don't really know how many km/miles I am driving.
It would be interesting to know! Maybe I'll reset my thing in the car today and then check in 7 days.
It will be more this weekend bce we have a birthday party to go to on both Saturday and Sunday, though! :)

[kathy caribe]

We fill up 1-2 times a month and get around 300-400 miles when we fillup (we fill up at around 1/3 full. Last month we filled once; month before twice; looking over the year's budget I'd say it isn't uncommon to fill up twice a month. Town is 15km away, so that is a 30km RT just going to town. Looks like if we generally get 350/fillup that makes 700/month and that translates to 175 a week. Seems high so I'll keep an eye and see.

[Ali]

Me, about 100 to 150 miles. I've been going about 2 weeks between fill ups in the car.

Dh, his work is about 40 miles away. So 40x2x6=480 miles per week. Or one tank of gas in his truck.

Jordan, no idea.

[mirage1]

(and omg, just to stick this somewhere...this morning I was going 35 mph on the nearest cross street which has a 30 mph limit and a guy started tailgating me, just inches behind me I think! He apparently thought that 5 miles over the speed limit was WAYYYY too slow. I did what I've done before with people who think it is okay to speed through my neighborhood and slowed down to the limit. I really pissed him off and he actually sped past me at the corner and took the left hand turn BEFORE me on this little two lane road. What the heck are people thinking???? and um, maybe I shouldn't have slowed down. What if he purposely crashed into me or something?)You know, I slow down if someone's tailing me, as well, and I think it's completely justified. I think anony_mom said this once and it made perfectly good sense: For safety, there should be a certain amount of space between me and the cars ahead of and behind me. If we're going faster, that space should increase; if we're going more slowly, then there doesn't need to be as much space.

So if someone's RIGHT ON MY ASS, slowing down means we BOTH slow down which means that if I did have to stop suddenly, he's less likely to rear-end me. I am not doing it to piss them off, I'm doing it to lessen the likelihood that I'll get hit. Additionally, if the person wants to pass me or something, it'll take them less time to get around me if I'm doing 30 compared to if I were going 50.

And of course if it annoys them enough they'll either get in another lane or pass, which is really what I'm hoping will happen.

I am kind of a leadfoot but I don't tailgate. And if someone's tailgating me, I have no pride that keeps me from pulling off the side of the road and letting them pass me. I'll probably call them names while I'm doing it, though. :p

[mirage1]

My commute just increased by a lot, so I'm at about 250 miles a week. It's also mostly suburban driving at 40 - 45 mph, stop and go, so it's not a FAST 250, either.

[kathy caribe]

You know, I slow down if someone's tailing me, as well, and I think it's completely justified. I think anony_mom said this once and it made perfectly good sense: For safety, there should be a certain amount of space between me and the cars ahead of and behind me. If we're going faster, that space should increase; if we're going more slowly, then there doesn't need to be as much space.

So if someone's RIGHT ON MY ASS, slowing down means we BOTH slow down which means that if I did have to stop suddenly, he's less likely to rear-end me. I am not doing it to piss them off, I'm doing it to lessen the likelihood that I'll get hit. Additionally, if the person wants to pass me or something, it'll take them less time to get around me if I'm doing 30 compared to if I were going 50.

And of course if it annoys them enough they'll either get in another lane or pass, which is really what I'm hoping will happen.

I am kind of a leadfoot but I don't tailgate. And if someone's tailgating me, I have no pride that keeps me from pulling off the side of the road and letting them pass me. I'll probably call them names while I'm doing it, though. :p

I can't waste my time on those folks. You know that NEVER has happened in 4 years driving in Mexico? In the US, I simply pull over and let them go. Much safer than having them sit on my ass and I don't have to deal with the stress of having them back there.

[mudcreekmama]

Me? About 12 km a week lol! I walk everywhere. Dh on the other hand has a crazy commute this year - 180km a day - we're a 1 car family. As a result of his weekly commute we avoid the car on the weekends too!

[aleutsi]

I seem to average around 110-120 miles per week.

Our town is not huge (pop around 45,000) but I do make quite a few trips a day:

Home to first job and back.
Home to school and second job and back.
Home to school and back.
Home to after school actitivity and back (not everyday)


And a bit of running around at the weekend on errands or kids sporting events or visiting family or going to the beach etc.

A busy week:

DS & DD to co-op classes (8 miles round trip - drop both off, pick up ds then hours later come back and pick up dd 4 miles less once a month on days I volunteer) = 24

DD to work 4 days a week (16 miles there and back - 32 round trip, drop off and pick up because I need the car while she's at work) = 256

DS to BBall practice & games (season just ended :yay:, but baseball, summer bball and then football will fill in :gross: - for bball it was 18 miles to most practices and 22 miles to most games) = 236

DDs' choir is also 4 miles away, but because of scheduling and other things I need to do in the day, I drop off and pick up so it's 9yo to early choir (8 round trip - so 16 for drop off round trip and pick up round trip) and 17yo to midday choir (same same) = 32

To my parents' house it is 3.5 miles and we go there daily on average: 7 round trip miles x 7 = 49

Twice a week to the grocery (I can't fit a full week's groceries in my itty bitty car): 6 miles round trip x 2 = 12

To the church & back 4 times a week: 8 miles = 16m round trip x 4 = 64

DH round trip to work x 5 = 150

Teens hanging with friends at the mall: round trip 16m round trip x 2 = 32

That's a bare basics week not including spontaneous trips to the zoo or parks or museums or special shopping for clothes or birthdays, or Dr visits... for a total of: 855 - add any of the spontaneous trips above and we could be talking over a thousand miles in a week :gross: