Burton Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Burton, 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 Burton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Burton spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 170 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

Burton 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 Burton would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,110 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)
Burton	20.4 min	40.8 min	170 hrs/yr	$5,275	2,318
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.

Burton Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.4 minutes to get to work in Burton. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Burton

Walking is unusually rare in Burton: 3.7 times less than the Michigan average (0.5% vs 2.0%).

Biking is essentially absent in Burton, versus 0.3% in Michigan.

Few people walk or bike to work in Burton: just 0.5%, 4.3 times below the Michigan average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Burton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Burton 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.9%	2.5%	0.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	96.9%	2.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.4%	2.0%	0.1%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.4%	2.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	96.1%	2.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	95.7%	1.8%	0.3%	1.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	96.2%	1.2%	0.6%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	95.5%	1.8%	0.8%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	95.0%	2.0%	0.7%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	95.4%	1.6%	0.8%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.5%	2.3%	1.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	92.0%	4.7%	1.1%	1.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.3%	5.1%	0.9%	1.3%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	91.5%	5.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	91.2%	6.5%	0.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	91.4%	6.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2010 at 96.9% and lowest in 2023 at 91.2%. Overall it fell from 95.9% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, down 4.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Burton: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 6.6% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 1.8% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.5%.

Commute Start Times in Burton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Burton?

The bars show when commuters in Burton 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		8.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Burton is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 11.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.5% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 18.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Michigan: 34.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (35.3%) 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 Burton, 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 Burton 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 Burton 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	Burton	Michigan	United States
2009	7:52 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:51 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:51 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:49 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:45 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:01 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Burton were on the road by 8:01 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:52 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Burton now leave 23 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 Burton has moved 17 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Burton in the whole series.

How does Burton's commute time compare?

Metric	Burton	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.4 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.6%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Burton is 20.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.6% 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

Burton, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Burton, MI compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Burton, MI	29,500	20.4 min #2/2	6.6% #2/2	8:01 AM #1/2
Flint, MI	80,168	17.7 min	8.4%	8:10 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Burton, Michigan.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 170 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,275 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM in Burton, Michigan. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.