Rental listings portal Apartment List has released new research showing that Hartford-area residents who commute to work more than 90 minutes each way have grown 36 percent in the last 10 years.

Based on just-released data from the 2020 Census, the survey shows how much further some renters and homebuyers are willing to travel to find a home they like.

In total, at 13,0000 these so-called “super-commuters” make up only 1.9 percent of the region’s workforce. But their rate grew at more than double the 15.8 percent growth rate of the region’s workforce as a whole.

Most super-commuters live on the outskirts of the metro area – defined by the Census Bureau as Hartford, Middlesex and Tolland counties – with only 1 percent living within 10 miles of Hartford City Hall. Middlesex County has the largest share of super commuters of the Hartford region’s counties, at 2 percent of the workforce.

Statewide, Fairfield County has the largest super-commuter workforce, with 7.6 percent of all residents traveling more than 90 minutes one-way to their jobs. That figure grew 82 percent from 2010 to 2019, Apartment List said, leaving the area with the fourth-highest share of super-commuters among all major metro areas in the country.

Nationally, Apartment List’s research said, 13.5 percent of all transit riders are super commuters and transit riders are five times as likely to be super commuters than drivers, indicating the need for more investments in transit, the report said. Gov. Ned Lamont has urged upgrades to the state’s transportation system that could dramatically cut commute times from Connecticut into and out of New York City. With the hoped-for passage of a new package of federal infrastructure investments, the upgrades could become a reality.