Alcona County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Alcona County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Alcona County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.7 minutes.

Alcona County holds about 0.1% of Michigan's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Alcona County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,376 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)
Alcona County	23.0 min	46.0 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,940	382
Michigan	21.3 min	42.6 min	178 hrs/yr	$5,509	1,585
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: Michigan Counties

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On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Alcona County. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 80% of counties in Michigan

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Alcona County

• Car: 85.4%
• Worked at Home: 10.9%
• Walked: 3.0%
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Alcona County, versus 0.1% in Michigan.

Public transit is essentially absent in Alcona County, versus 0.9% in Michigan.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Alcona County, versus 0.1% in Michigan.

Biking is essentially absent in Alcona County, versus 0.3% in Michigan.

Commute Mode Trends in Alcona County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Alcona 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.5%	8.5%	2.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	86.1%	9.3%	2.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	87.0%	8.5%	3.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2012	87.5%	8.1%	3.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2013	88.1%	7.1%	3.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%
2014	89.2%	5.4%	3.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2015	90.2%	4.6%	2.7%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2016	90.5%	5.2%	2.2%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	90.4%	5.3%	1.8%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	90.4%	5.7%	1.6%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	90.3%	5.7%	1.6%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	89.6%	6.5%	2.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	88.3%	7.4%	2.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	87.5%	8.4%	3.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.7%	8.9%	3.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.4%	10.9%	3.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	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 90.5%. Overall it fell from 87.5% in 2009 to 85.4% in 2024, down 2.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Alcona County: its share of workers rose from 8.5% in 2009 to 10.9% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Alcona County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Alcona County?

The bars show when commuters in Alcona 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 Michigan for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Alcona County6.5% Michigan5.3%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Alcona County5.6% Michigan3.9%	5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Alcona County8.2% Michigan5.1%	8.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Alcona County8.6% Michigan8.0%	8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Alcona County7.8% Michigan9.0%	7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Alcona County15.4% Michigan13.0%	15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Alcona County10.1% Michigan12.1%	10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Alcona County11.7% Michigan10.9%	11.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Alcona County3.1% Michigan5.6%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Alcona County7.5% Michigan6.7%	7.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Alcona County2.2% Michigan3.2%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Alcona County1.2% Michigan1.6%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Alcona County6.1% Michigan8.5%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Alcona County6.0% Michigan7.1%	6.0%

Alcona County Michigan Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Alcona County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 20.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Michigan's: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.1%) 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 Alcona 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 Alcona 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 Alcona County next to Michigan 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.

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• Michigan
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Alcona County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Alcona County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Alcona County now leave 12 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 Alcona County has moved 13 minutes earlier.

How does Alcona County's commute time compare?

Metric	Alcona County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 min	21.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.9%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Alcona County is 23.0 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau