2022 Car Usage

This is the 13th year I have tracked car usage, so I think it's safe to say this has become a habit. As has the nerdy tracking and graphing of it in Microsoft Excel. (You can check out 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, 2017 here, 2016 here, 2015 here, 2014 here, 2013 here, 2012 here, 2011 here, 2010 here, and 2009 here.)

As before, the Philly totals represent, in order, number of trips, number of legs represented in those trips (i.e. going to and from my in-laws, making one stop to get gas, counts as three legs), and number of legs in which I was driven (rather than driving).
 
The other city totals represent, in order, number of times I was in that location, number of days I was in that location, number of trips, number of legs represented in those trips, and number of legs in which I was driven.

January 12/33/0

February 8/29/1 State College 1/1/1/10/0

March 9/23/0 OCNJ 1/1/1/3/0 NYC 1/1/0/0/0

April 6/19/0 Hershey 1/2/2/8/0 NYC 1/1/0/0/0

May 11/33/0 Baltimore 1/1/0/0/0 

June 12/34/0 camps 5/5/5/15/0 OCNJ 3/3/3/8/0 NYC 1/1/0/0/0 Wilmington 1/1/0/0/6

July 19/57/0 camp 3/3/3/10/0 Wilmington 1/1/1/4/2

August 7/19/0 OCNJ 1/7/6/21/0 SJ 1/5/7/30/2 DC/NC/Pgh 1/4/4/26/0

September 17/52/0 NC 1/1/0/0/4 OCNJ 1/2/1/3/0 Boston 1/1/0/0/4 Wilmington 1/1/0/0/2 Harrisburg 1/1/0/0/0 CMRB 1/1/1/4/0 Iroquoina 2/2/2/9/0

October 19/53/0 OCNJ 1/2/1/3/0 DC 1/1/1/3/0

November 14/38/0 OCNJ 2/4/2/6/0

December 20/58/0 OCNJ 1/4/4/11/0

So my Philly total is 154 trips involving 448 legs, plus another 1 leg in which I was driven.  So that works out to about 13 car trips and 37 legs a month, both up about 50 percent from 2021. Then counting non-Philly trips it's closer to 15.5 car trips and 48 legs a month. Asher's extra-curriculars and my golf habit add multiple trips a month to the ledger, as did 10 separate jaunts to our beach house in Ocean City.

All those trips meant almost 10,000 miles on the family car in 2022. COVID had reduced our mileage in 2020 and 2021 such that at this time last year our average annual mileage for our car was less than 7,000 and now I'd say it's closer to 7,500, still comfortably under what a typical suburban family might log; with multiple drivers you could do double our mileage on each of two or more cars and not blink. A reminder that city living is green living.