Commuting in Antrim County, 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 Antrim County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Antrim County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 186 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.
Antrim County holds about 0.2% of Michigan's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Antrim County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,304 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)
Antrim County
22.3 min
44.6 min
186 hrs/yr
$5,761
715
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.
On average, it takes
22.3
minutes to get to work in
Antrim County.
That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower than 73% of counties in Michigan
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.5% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Antrim County
Car:
82.1%
Worked at Home:
12.5%
Walked:
3.2%
Other:
1.8%
Bicycle:
0.4%
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public transit is unusually rare in Antrim County: 16.5 times less than the Michigan average (0.1% vs 0.9%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Antrim County, versus 0.1% in Michigan.
Commute Mode Trends in Antrim County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Antrim 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.
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
89.7%
5.3%
3.1%
0.6%
0.2%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
2010
88.1%
6.9%
3.1%
0.7%
0.3%
0.7%
0.1%
0.1%
2011
88.6%
6.6%
3.1%
0.8%
0.3%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2012
89.2%
6.8%
2.9%
0.5%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2013
89.1%
6.9%
2.5%
0.6%
0.4%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
2014
88.5%
7.8%
2.3%
0.7%
0.2%
0.4%
0.0%
0.1%
2015
89.1%
7.0%
2.2%
0.8%
0.2%
0.6%
0.0%
0.1%
2016
88.7%
7.8%
2.0%
0.7%
0.2%
0.5%
0.0%
0.1%
2017
89.2%
7.3%
1.9%
0.7%
0.2%
0.7%
0.0%
0.1%
2018
89.2%
7.2%
1.7%
1.1%
0.1%
0.6%
0.0%
0.1%
2019
89.1%
6.2%
2.3%
1.6%
0.2%
0.4%
0.0%
0.1%
2020
86.9%
8.1%
2.7%
1.5%
0.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.2%
2021
86.3%
8.4%
2.7%
1.9%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
0.2%
2022
84.7%
9.9%
2.8%
2.1%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.2%
2023
82.9%
11.3%
3.5%
1.9%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
82.1%
12.5%
3.2%
1.8%
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. Overall its share fell from 89.7% in 2009 to 82.1% in 2024, down 7.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Antrim County: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 12.5% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).
Commute Start Times in Antrim County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Antrim County?
The bars show when commuters in Antrim 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 AMAntrim County7.8%Michigan5.3%
7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMAntrim County4.5%Michigan3.9%
4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMAntrim County4.0%Michigan5.1%
4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMAntrim County7.7%Michigan8.0%
7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMAntrim County11.8%Michigan9.0%
11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMAntrim County12.7%Michigan13.0%
12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMAntrim County13.5%Michigan12.1%
13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMAntrim County7.9%Michigan10.9%
7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMAntrim County8.3%Michigan5.6%
8.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMAntrim County6.7%Michigan6.7%
6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMAntrim County2.6%Michigan3.2%
2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMAntrim County1.0%Michigan1.6%
1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMAntrim County6.2%Michigan8.5%
6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMAntrim County5.4%Michigan7.1%
5.4%
Antrim CountyMichiganSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Antrim County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 16.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Michigan's: 45.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Antrim 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 Antrim 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 Antrim 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.
Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show typical departure times by year
Year
Antrim County
Michigan
United States
2009
7:42 AM
7:44 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:44 AM
7:45 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:43 AM
7:45 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:42 AM
7:45 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:43 AM
7:45 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:44 AM
7:45 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:41 AM
7:44 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:41 AM
7:44 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:43 AM
7:43 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:43 AM
7:43 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:41 AM
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:42 AM
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:38 AM
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:37 AM
7:43 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:31 AM
7:43 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:34 AM
7:44 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Antrim County were on the road by 7:34 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Antrim County now leave 4 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 Antrim County has moved 8 minutes earlier.
How does Antrim County's commute time compare?
Metric
Antrim County
Michigan
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
22.3 min
21.3 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
12.5%
13.5%
15.0%
Walked
3.2%
2.0%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Antrim County is 22.3 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.
0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 3.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Michigan.
Antrim County, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Antrim County, MI is typical in size for this group, 24,127 residents against a local median of 26,108, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Antrim County, MI apart most is one-way commute: 22.3 min, 27% above the local median of 17.5 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.
Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 12.5% against a local median of 10.7%, 17% above it. The counties themselves spread 10.7 min on one-way commute, so Antrim County, MI sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Antrim County, MI has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Antrim County, Michigan.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Antrim County, Michigan?
Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,761 at a typical national wage. That's 5% more than the typical Michigan commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Antrim County, Michigan?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Antrim County, Michigan. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Do people use public transit in Antrim County, Michigan?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Michigan, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Michigan?
Among counties in Michigan, the shortest average commutes are in Luce County (11.4 min), Dickinson County (12.2 min), Schoolcraft County (12.5 min). The longest are in Lapeer County (31.3 min), Lake County (31.1 min), Livingston County (28.6 min).