Manistee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Manistee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Manistee County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 140 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.

Manistee 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 Manistee County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,740 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)
Manistee County	16.8 min	33.7 min	140 hrs/yr	$4,351	632
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 16.8 minutes to get to work in Manistee County. That's 25% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 79% 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 10.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Manistee County

• Car: 85.4%
• Worked at Home: 10.8%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Other: 1.0%
• Bicycle: 0.8%
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Manistee County: 6.5 times less than the Michigan average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Manistee County: 15.4 times less than the Michigan average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Manistee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Manistee 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.6%	4.8%	2.4%	1.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	90.9%	4.7%	2.4%	1.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	89.7%	5.5%	2.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	91.4%	5.4%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	90.4%	5.4%	2.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	90.4%	5.3%	2.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	89.8%	4.9%	3.2%	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	90.4%	4.5%	3.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	90.1%	3.7%	3.4%	0.8%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	90.7%	3.7%	2.7%	0.8%	0.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.4%	4.0%	2.5%	0.9%	1.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.5%	5.4%	1.6%	0.8%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.0%	6.3%	1.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.7%	8.2%	1.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.0%	10.3%	1.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.4%	10.8%	1.8%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 91.4%. Overall it fell from 90.6% in 2009 to 85.4% in 2024, down 5.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Manistee County: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 10.8% in 2024, up 6.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 1.8% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Biking overtook public transit to become the 5th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Manistee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Manistee County?

The bars show when commuters in Manistee 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 Manistee County4.7% Michigan5.3%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Manistee County2.9% Michigan3.9%	2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Manistee County5.6% Michigan5.1%	5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Manistee County9.0% Michigan8.0%	9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Manistee County9.2% Michigan9.0%	9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Manistee County13.9% Michigan13.0%	13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Manistee County13.2% Michigan12.1%	13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Manistee County8.8% Michigan10.9%	8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Manistee County5.8% Michigan5.6%	5.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Manistee County7.3% Michigan6.7%	7.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Manistee County2.8% Michigan3.2%	2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Manistee County1.4% Michigan1.6%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Manistee County9.2% Michigan8.5%	9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Manistee County6.1% Michigan7.1%	6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Manistee County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Michigan. Early starts are less common than in Michigan: 13.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Michigan's: 45.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.9%) 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 Manistee 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 Manistee 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 Manistee 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	Manistee County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:47 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:49 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:51 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:53 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:54 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:53 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:49 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:47 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Manistee County were on the road by 7:41 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:47 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Manistee County now leave 3 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Manistee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Manistee County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.8 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	10.8%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Manistee County is 16.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau