Londoners are willing to travel the longest to get to work, a survey had found.

Research by YouGov found 78 percent of the capital's residents who are not retired or students will commute for an hour or more each way to work.

The online survey for Avanta questioned more than 2,000 people nationwide. It found two in five Londnoers are willing to commute for a maximum of an hour each way to get to work, with a further 37 per cent willing to travel for more than an hour. Just 21 percent are wlling to commute for so long nationally.

The least willing commuters are in the Midlands with more than half willing to travel for up to 45 minutes, a quarter happy to travel up to an hour, but only 14 percent willing to travel for longer.

The survey also found that nationally the most willing to travel up to an hour were the unemployed (43 percent).

Janette Faherty of Avanta said: "London as a city has expanded, but this survey still indicates the dedication Londoners have to their work in order to willingly spend two hours a day, or longer in many cases, travelling. In London, it seems there is an acceptance of a long commute that isn’t necessarily the case in the rest of the country.

"The survey also points towards the efforts made by jobseekers, who are more willing to commute an hour to work than some of those are already in employment, for the opportunity to be the best they can in the workplace. At Avanta, we help unemployed people to find work through skills development, mentoring, training and enterprise so they can fulfill their workplace potential."