Lincoln Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lincoln Park, 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 Lincoln Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lincoln Park spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Lincoln Park holds about 0.4% of Michigan's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lincoln Park would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,261 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)
Lincoln Park	21.9 min	43.8 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,653	3,771
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.

Lincoln Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.9 minutes to get to work in Lincoln Park. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lincoln Park

Public transit is unusually rare in Lincoln Park: 3.4 times less than the Michigan average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Lincoln Park, versus 0.3% in Michigan.

Commute Mode Trends in Lincoln Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lincoln Park 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.9%	1.8%	0.2%	1.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	94.9%	1.5%	0.1%	1.9%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	94.7%	2.0%	0.2%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	95.6%	1.9%	0.2%	0.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	96.4%	1.7%	0.1%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	96.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	95.4%	1.5%	0.4%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	95.6%	1.1%	0.5%	1.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	95.1%	1.2%	0.7%	1.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	94.4%	2.1%	0.8%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	94.2%	2.3%	0.8%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	94.1%	3.3%	0.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	92.0%	5.9%	0.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	91.5%	6.3%	0.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	91.7%	6.1%	0.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	90.0%	7.7%	1.0%	0.9%	0.3%	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 2013 at 96.4%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 90.0% in 2024, down 4.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lincoln Park: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 7.7% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lincoln Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lincoln Park?

The bars show when commuters in Lincoln Park 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		6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lincoln Park is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 10.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.0% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 19.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Michigan: 38.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.2%) 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 Lincoln Park, 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 Lincoln Park 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 Lincoln Park 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	Lincoln Park	Michigan	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 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	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lincoln Park were on the road by 7:28 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:45 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Lincoln Park now leave 10 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 Lincoln Park has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Lincoln Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Lincoln Park	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.9 min	21.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	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	7.7%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lincoln Park is 21.9 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lincoln Park, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Lincoln Park, MI is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 39,240 residents against a local median of 27,928. Lincoln Park, MI's work from home, at 7.7%, runs 28% below the 10.7% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves sit within 1.7% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Lincoln Park, MI, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Lincoln Park, MI has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lincoln Park, MI	39,240	21.9 min #4/4	7.7% #4/4	7:28 AM #1/4
Allen Park, MI	27,928	21.1 min	10.4%	7:36 AM
Wyandotte, MI	24,450	21.6 min	10.7%	7:47 AM
Southgate, MI	29,366	21.0 min	12.1%	7:48 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lincoln Park, Michigan.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Lincoln Park, Michigan?

Commuters here spend an estimated 182 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,653 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Lincoln Park, Michigan?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Lincoln Park, 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.

Do people use public transit in Lincoln Park, Michigan?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Michigan, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.