The Washington region ranks among the best in metropolitan areas that connect households without cars to public transit, but it still could be more efficient in connecting suburban residents to jobs, a new report says. Of the more than 2 million households in the greater Washington area, 9.5 percent don’t have a car, according to a report released Thursday by the Brookings Institution. Of those 194,000 households, 96 percent have access to transit and nearly two of every three live in the city.

But getting somewhere is a different story — 62 percent of the region’s suburban households without cars, including Southern Maryland and part of West Virginia, are more than a 90-minute commute from their jobs. That share in the inner core, which includes Arlington and Alexandria, is 38 percent.