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Commuting in Allen Park, Michigan: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Allen Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Allen Park spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 176 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Allen Park holds about 0.3% of Michigan's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Allen Park would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,181 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)
Allen Park 21.1 min 42.2 min 176 hrs/yr $5,452 4,271
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.

Allen Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.1 minutes to get to work in Allen Park. That's 6% 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 working from home. About 10.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Allen Park

  • Car: 88.6%
  • Worked at Home: 10.4%
  • Walked: 0.5% unusually low
  • Other: 0.3%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Allen Park, versus 0.1% in Michigan.

Walking is unusually rare in Allen Park: 4.0 times less than the Michigan average (0.5% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Allen Park, versus 0.9% in Michigan.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Allen Park, versus 0.1% in Michigan.

Few people walk or bike to work in Allen Park: just 0.7%, 3.2 times below the Michigan average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Allen Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Allen Park 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Walked Other Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 96.8% 1.7% 0.9% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 96.7% 1.7% 0.9% 0.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2011 96.5% 1.5% 1.0% 0.2% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 97.0% 1.3% 1.0% 0.1% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 97.2% 1.3% 0.7% 0.1% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 96.9% 1.6% 0.9% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 96.9% 1.6% 1.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 97.1% 1.8% 1.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 96.3% 2.1% 1.0% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 96.1% 2.2% 0.9% 0.3% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 95.5% 2.6% 0.8% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2020 93.1% 4.7% 0.7% 0.7% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 91.4% 6.6% 0.6% 0.8% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 90.4% 8.1% 0.7% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 88.8% 9.9% 0.6% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2024 88.6% 10.4% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 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 2013 at 97.2%. Overall it fell from 96.8% in 2009 to 88.6% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Allen Park: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 10.4% in 2024, up 8.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Allen Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Allen Park?

The bars show when commuters in Allen Park 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
5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
7.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
7.1%

Allen Park Michigan Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Allen Park is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 15.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Michigan: 43.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.1%) 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 Allen Park, 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 Allen Park 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 Allen Park 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Allen Park Michigan United States
2009 7:44 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:49 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:52 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:43 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:43 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:41 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:40 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:39 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:43 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:47 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:45 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:43 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:43 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:43 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:39 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:36 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Allen Park were on the road by 7:36 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Allen Park now leave 2 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 Allen Park has moved 9 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Allen Park in the whole series.

How does Allen Park's commute time compare?

Metric Allen Park Michigan US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.1 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 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 10.4% 13.5% 15.0%
Walked 0.5% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Allen Park is about the same as in Michigan.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Allen Park, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Allen Park, MI is the smallest of the 5 cities compared here, 27,928 residents against a local median of 50,661. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Allen Park, MI an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 6% below the local median at 10.4% against 11.1%. Allen Park, MI has the 3rd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Allen Park, MI 27,928 21.1 min #4/5 10.4% #3/5 7:36 AM #3/5
Lincoln Park, MI 39,240 21.9 min 7.7% 7:28 AM
Dearborn, MI 107,299 20.5 min 13.2% 8:21 AM
Southgate, MI 29,366 21.0 min 12.1% 7:48 AM
Taylor, MI 62,081 18.9 min 10.0% 7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Allen Park, Michigan.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Allen Park, Michigan?

Commuters here spend an estimated 176 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,452 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Allen Park, Michigan?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Allen Park, Michigan. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Allen Park, Michigan?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Michigan, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.