The average driver in the United States drove 13,476 miles in one year in 2022 per the United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, or FHWA. This provides a good base line to figure out how many miles you may drive. You can figure out the exact mileage in a few ways. If you commute to work, calculate the number of working days in a year multiplied by how many times you drive to and from your home to work address. A full-time job will normally work around 260 days each year. You can find the mileage between addresses on Google Maps or using our gas mileage calculator’s trip distance feature. Add some leeway for other trips to the store and other places you visit. You can also use other years as a basis for your mileage count. If you have a previous car you normally drove, look at the maintenance records. Look for things like mileage between oil changes and other dated events. Estimate the mileage that you have put on the vehicle over that given time. If that is not possible, you can use the FHWA standard 13,476 approximation. If you think you drive less, you can scale your estimate down to 10,000 or 12,000 miles. If you think you drive more, bump up your estimate to 14,000 or 15,000.