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What percentage of American adults get around in a car borrowed from friends, family or coworkers, carpooling included?

7.4% of American adults get around in a car borrowed from friends, family or coworkers, carpooling included - about 7 in every 100, or 1 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.

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7.4

Where this number comes from

Survey
Household Pulse Survey
What it measured
HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item TP_VEHBOR (“Currently, which of the following transportation options do you have access to: Select all that apply. A personal vehicle borrowed from a friend, family member, neighbor, coworker, or acquaintance (including carpooling)”), counting responses 1=Selected, as a share of adults who answered (10.0% did not). Computed from the Census Bureau's public-use microdata with the person weight PWEIGHT; the standard error uses its 80 successive-difference replicate weights (4/80 · Σ of squared deviations). The counts and standard errors behind it reproduce the published table transportation1. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 11,894.
Population
U.S. adults aged 18 and over
Year
2026
95% confidence interval
5.95% to 8.85% (derived from the published standard error)

Work of the U.S. federal government - public domain. See the source data

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