Marquette County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Marquette County, 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 Marquette County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Marquette County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 116 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 7.4 minutes.

Marquette County holds about 0.7% of Michigan's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Marquette County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,441 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)
Marquette County	13.9 min	27.9 min	116 hrs/yr	$3,603	440
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Michigan

Luce County (11.4 min)
Dickinson County (12.2 min)
Schoolcraft County (12.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Michigan

Lapeer County (31.3 min)
Lake County (31.1 min)
Livingston County (28.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Marquette County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 13.9 minutes to get to work in Marquette County. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 88% of counties in Michigan

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Marquette County

Public transit is unusually rare in Marquette County: 3.0 times less than the Michigan average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Marquette County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Marquette 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.

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	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	90.3%	2.1%	4.9%	0.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	90.8%	2.3%	4.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	90.0%	2.8%	5.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	89.8%	3.1%	5.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	89.6%	2.9%	5.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	90.0%	3.1%	5.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	88.9%	3.2%	5.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	88.8%	3.3%	5.9%	0.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	88.9%	3.4%	5.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	88.9%	3.7%	5.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	88.9%	3.4%	5.7%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	88.5%	3.8%	6.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	88.2%	4.5%	5.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	86.3%	5.6%	5.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	86.6%	6.7%	5.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	86.0%	7.5%	5.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	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 2010 at 90.8%. Overall it fell from 90.3% in 2009 to 86.0% in 2024, down 4.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Marquette County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 7.5% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 6.0% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 5.0%.

Commute Start Times in Marquette County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Marquette County?

The bars show when commuters in Marquette 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		5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Marquette County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.4% 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 looks much like Michigan's: 46.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.2%) 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 Marquette 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 Marquette 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 Marquette 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Marquette County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:53 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:49 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:50 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:51 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:51 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:51 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:52 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:53 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:51 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:50 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:48 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:47 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Marquette County were on the road by 7:47 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:54 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Marquette County now leave 9 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 Marquette County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Marquette County's commute time compare?

Metric	Marquette County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.9 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.5%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	5.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Marquette County is 13.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 5.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Marquette County, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Marquette County, MI is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 66,775 residents against a local median of 11,667. Marquette County, MI sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 9% below the local median at 7.5% against 8.2%. Marquette County, MI has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Marquette County, MI	66,775	13.9 min #5/6	7.5% #4/6	7:47 AM #5/6
Dickinson County, MI	25,954	12.2 min	9.0%	7:24 AM
Baraga County, MI	8,191	12.5 min	5.8%	7:42 AM
Alger County, MI	8,761	17.5 min	8.2%	7:41 AM
Iron County, MI	11,667	13.9 min	11.6%	7:03 AM
Delta County, MI	36,813	13.3 min	5.8%	7:51 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Marquette County, Michigan.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Marquette County, Michigan?

Commuters here spend an estimated 116 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,603 at a typical national wage. That's 35% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Marquette County, Michigan?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Marquette County, Michigan. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Marquette County, 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.

How do commute times compare across counties in Michigan?

Among counties in Michigan, the shortest average commutes are in Luce County (11.4 min), Dickinson County (12.2 min), Schoolcraft County (12.5 min). The longest are in Lapeer County (31.3 min), Lake County (31.1 min), Livingston County (28.6 min).