Julie Peat travels almost an hour each way to get to and from work each day, but she says the commute time isn't as bad as it could be.
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"It used to take an hour and 20 minutes before the bus timetable changed," Ms Peat said.
"The bus I catch used to stop at Woden, and now it's more direct."
The Conder resident travels 50 minutes getting between her home and her work in Forrest.
While it may seem like a long commute, the travel time is now par for the course in the ACT, according to new data.
The Melbourne Institute's latest Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey - released on Tuesday - showed Canberra had the largest increase in average commute times in the country.
The average daily commute time of Canberrans was 51.5 minutes in 2017, compared to just 31.3 minutes in 2002, an increase of more than 64 per cent.
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While Canberra's commuting times may have almost doubled in 15 years, the 2017 figures were a slight fall from the high of 55 minutes recorded in 2014.
"Trends in commuting times have...varied considerably across the country, with non-Perth Western Australia and the ACT experiencing the largest increases," the report said.
"Whereas increases in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and the Northern Territory were comparatively small."
The median time Australian commuters spent in traffic each day was 48 minutes.
Canberra recorded the sixth highest average daily commute time, with Sydney notching up the longest average of 71 minutes, followed by Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide.
Ms Peat said while her commute time had decreased in recent months, Canberra's growing population meant many others were facing longer on the road getting to work.
"It's the population causing the longer commute, that and the fact that there's more cars on the roads," she said.
"The whole city's been growing."
Jason Salmon commutes between his home in Ngunnawal and his work in Fyshwick, and said it normally takes him more than 30 minutes to get between the two.
"The afternoon is a lot worse than mornings. If I leave Fyshwick at 4.55pm, I'm home about 5.30pm," he said.
"If I leave Fyshwick at 5pm, [it adds] another 10 minutes.
The report also found a link between those who commuted longer to work each day and less satisfaction with their job.
More workers with commutes classified by the report as long - two hours or more each day - said they had looked for a new job in the past four weeks, compared to those with commutes of less than an hour.
When asked to rate their job out of 10, the average worker with a short commute rated their job 7.8, while those with a long commute to work rated their job 7.4.
Transport Minister Chris Steel said the government was committed to delivering a mix of public transport, active travel initiatives and road upgrades for private commuters.