Allamakee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Allamakee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Allamakee County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Allamakee County holds about 0.4% of Iowa's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Allamakee County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,891 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Allamakee County	18.3 min	36.6 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,727	364
Iowa	17.0 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,382	606
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: Iowa Counties

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On average, it takes 18.3 minutes to get to work in Allamakee County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 7.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Allamakee County

• Car: 83.0%
• Walked: 7.3%
• Worked at Home: 7.1%
• Other: 2.2%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Allamakee County, versus 0.1% in Iowa.

Public transit is unusually rare in Allamakee County: 23.6 times less than the Iowa average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Allamakee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Allamakee County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

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• Walked
• Worked at Home
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• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	79.5%	8.7%	10.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2010	80.5%	8.2%	9.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2011	81.2%	7.7%	9.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	82.7%	7.7%	7.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	85.1%	5.2%	7.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2014	86.2%	6.4%	5.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	86.7%	6.6%	5.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	87.2%	5.3%	5.3%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2017	85.2%	5.0%	7.5%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	86.1%	5.6%	6.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	86.3%	4.6%	7.2%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	86.9%	4.1%	7.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	84.2%	4.9%	9.6%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.0%	5.5%	7.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.5%	6.2%	8.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.0%	7.3%	7.1%	2.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 87.2%. Overall it rose from 79.5% in 2009 to 83.0% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 10.0% to 7.1% of workers (down 2.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Allamakee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Allamakee County?

The bars show when commuters in Allamakee County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Iowa for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Allamakee County6.6% Iowa5.2%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Allamakee County4.7% Iowa4.1%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Allamakee County9.2% Iowa5.7%	9.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Allamakee County9.2% Iowa8.2%	9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Allamakee County12.4% Iowa11.2%	12.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Allamakee County17.0% Iowa15.1%	17.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Allamakee County13.2% Iowa15.6%	13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Allamakee County6.8% Iowa9.1%	6.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Allamakee County1.7% Iowa3.6%	1.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Allamakee County4.5% Iowa4.4%	4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Allamakee County1.1% Iowa2.3%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Allamakee County2.2% Iowa1.1%	2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Allamakee County4.4% Iowa7.5%	4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Allamakee County7.0% Iowa6.8%	7.0%

Allamakee County Iowa Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Allamakee County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Iowa. Early starts are more common than in Iowa: 20.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Iowa's: 49.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.2%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Allamakee County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Allamakee County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Allamakee County next to Iowa and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

• Allamakee County
• Iowa
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Allamakee County	Iowa	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Allamakee County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 19 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). The shift is sharper than across Iowa, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Allamakee County now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Allamakee County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Allamakee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Allamakee County	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.3 min	17.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.1%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	7.3%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Allamakee County is 18.3 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Iowa.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 7.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau