Baraga County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Baraga County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Baraga County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 105 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 8.8 minutes.

Baraga County holds about 0.1% of Michigan's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Baraga County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,297 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)
Baraga County	12.5 min	25.1 min	105 hrs/yr	$3,241	342
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 12.5 minutes to get to work in Baraga County. That's 44% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in Michigan

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Baraga County

• Car: 91.1%
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Other: 1.7%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Baraga County: 6.7 times less than the Michigan average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Baraga County: 4.1 times less than the Michigan average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Baraga County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Baraga 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
• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	91.5%	4.2%	1.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	90.5%	2.4%	1.9%	4.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	90.5%	2.9%	1.4%	4.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	92.7%	2.7%	1.4%	2.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	93.5%	3.4%	0.7%	1.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	93.9%	3.1%	0.8%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	93.2%	3.6%	0.7%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.3%	3.9%	0.7%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	91.6%	4.0%	0.7%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	92.3%	3.1%	0.9%	3.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	92.3%	3.3%	0.5%	3.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	93.3%	3.2%	0.5%	2.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	94.1%	3.1%	0.7%	1.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.3%	4.3%	0.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.9%	5.0%	1.6%	2.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	91.1%	5.8%	1.7%	1.1%	0.1%	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 was highest in 2021 at 94.1% and lowest in 2010 at 90.5%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 91.5% in 2009 and 91.1% in 2024.

Working from home gained the most ground in Baraga County: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 1.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 1.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Baraga County

• 🚦 Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Michigan's 83 counties: 53.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Baraga County?

The bars show when commuters in Baraga 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 Baraga County4.3% Michigan5.3%	4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Baraga County4.3% Michigan3.9%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Baraga County5.0% Michigan5.1%	5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Baraga County6.2% Michigan8.0%	6.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Baraga County13.0% Michigan9.0%	13.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Baraga County8.7% Michigan13.0%	8.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Baraga County21.6% Michigan12.1%	21.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Baraga County9.9% Michigan10.9%	9.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Baraga County2.9% Michigan5.6%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Baraga County5.0% Michigan6.7%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Baraga County4.7% Michigan3.2%	4.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Baraga County1.8% Michigan1.6%	1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Baraga County6.4% Michigan8.5%	6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Baraga County6.2% Michigan7.1%	6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Baraga County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Michigan. Early starts are about as common as in Michigan: 13.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Michigan: 53.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.1%) 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 Baraga 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 Baraga 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 Baraga 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Baraga County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:47 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:47 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Baraga County were on the road by 7:42 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Baraga County now leave 4 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Baraga County's commute time compare?

Metric	Baraga County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.5 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.8%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Baraga County is 12.5 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau