Allendale Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Allendale, 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 Allendale: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Allendale spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Allendale holds about 0.2% of Michigan's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Allendale would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,147 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)
Allendale	20.8 min	41.6 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,368	2,926
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.

Allendale Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Allendale. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Allendale

Walking is unusually common in Allendale: 4.2 times more than the Michigan average (8.4% vs 2.0%).

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

Allendale stands out for active commuting: 8.9% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.8 times the Michigan average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Allendale, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Allendale 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	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	89.5%	2.8%	5.9%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	85.0%	2.8%	8.5%	3.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	81.6%	2.3%	9.9%	5.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	80.3%	1.6%	10.4%	5.6%	0.1%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2013	80.4%	1.1%	9.5%	6.6%	0.1%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%
2014	79.5%	1.6%	10.5%	6.1%	0.0%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	79.2%	1.9%	11.4%	5.3%	0.0%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%
2016	79.3%	2.1%	11.7%	3.9%	0.1%	1.4%	1.5%	0.0%
2017	82.0%	3.1%	10.3%	3.8%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	83.1%	3.2%	10.3%	2.5%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	83.9%	3.3%	9.8%	2.1%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	82.5%	5.7%	8.7%	2.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	82.3%	7.1%	7.5%	2.1%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	81.7%	7.1%	7.8%	1.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	78.4%	8.8%	9.0%	2.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	78.2%	8.8%	8.4%	2.7%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 89.5% in 2009 to 78.2% in 2024, down 11.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Allendale: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 8.8% in 2024, up 6.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit peaked at 6.6% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 2.7%.

Commute Start Times in Allendale

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Allendale?

The bars show when commuters in Allendale 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		5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		18.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		12.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Allendale is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.5% across Michigan. Early starts are less common than in Michigan: 11.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Michigan: 33.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 2 commuters (42.7%) 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 Allendale, 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 Allendale 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 Allendale 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	Allendale	Michigan	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:56 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:11 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:22 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:29 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:38 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:27 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:20 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:14 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:04 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:14 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:09 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:19 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Allendale were on the road by 8:19 AM, 43 minutes later than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Allendale now leave 41 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Allendale has moved 15 minutes later.

How does Allendale's commute time compare?

Metric	Allendale	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 min	21.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.8%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	8.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.7%	0.9%	3.2%

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

2.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Michigan. 8.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Allendale, Michigan.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Allendale, Michigan?

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,368 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Allendale, Michigan?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM in Allendale, Michigan. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.