Iosco County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Iosco County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Iosco County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 132 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Iosco County holds about 0.3% of Michigan's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Iosco County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,642 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)
Iosco County	15.9 min	31.8 min	132 hrs/yr	$4,105	867
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 15.9 minutes to get to work in Iosco County. That's 29% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% of counties in Michigan

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 7.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Iosco County

• Car: 87.7%
• Worked at Home: 7.2%
• Walked: 3.7%
• Other: 0.6%
• Bicycle: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Iosco County, versus 0.1% in Michigan.

Public transit is unusually rare in Iosco County: 6.8 times less than the Michigan average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Iosco County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Iosco 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Bicycle
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.4%	4.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2010	92.7%	4.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	91.8%	4.9%	1.8%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	92.2%	4.4%	2.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.9%	4.7%	2.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.1%	4.2%	2.7%	0.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.8%	3.7%	2.6%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.1%	3.4%	2.5%	0.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	91.6%	3.6%	3.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	91.7%	3.6%	3.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	92.2%	4.0%	2.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.0%	4.2%	3.9%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.8%	5.2%	4.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.1%	5.8%	3.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.7%	6.5%	4.1%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.7%	7.2%	3.7%	0.6%	0.6%	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 peaked in 2010 at 92.7%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 87.7% in 2024, down 4.7 percentage points.

Walking gained the most ground in Iosco County: its share of workers rose from 0.8% in 2009 to 3.7% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points.

Commute Start Times in Iosco County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Iosco County?

The bars show when commuters in Iosco 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 Iosco County7.2% Michigan5.3%	7.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Iosco County3.1% Michigan3.9%	3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Iosco County7.0% Michigan5.1%	7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Iosco County7.5% Michigan8.0%	7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Iosco County10.2% Michigan9.0%	10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Iosco County14.0% Michigan13.0%	14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Iosco County11.6% Michigan12.1%	11.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Iosco County8.5% Michigan10.9%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Iosco County4.0% Michigan5.6%	4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Iosco County6.1% Michigan6.7%	6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Iosco County1.9% Michigan3.2%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Iosco County2.9% Michigan1.6%	2.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Iosco County9.5% Michigan8.5%	9.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Iosco County6.4% Michigan7.1%	6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Iosco County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 17.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Michigan's: 44.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.8%) 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 Iosco 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 Iosco 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 Iosco 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.

• Iosco County
• Michigan
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Iosco County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 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	7:38 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Iosco County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Iosco County now leave 5 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 Iosco County has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Iosco County in the whole series.

How does Iosco County's commute time compare?

Metric	Iosco County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.9 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	7.2%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	3.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Iosco County is 15.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 3.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau