Menominee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Menominee 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 Menominee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Menominee County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 136 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Menominee County holds about 0.2% of Michigan's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Menominee County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,681 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)
Menominee County	16.3 min	32.5 min	136 hrs/yr	$4,203	544
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

Menominee County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.3 minutes to get to work in Menominee County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% of counties in Michigan

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Menominee County

Public transit is unusually rare in Menominee County: 6.0 times less than the Michigan average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Menominee County: 51793719.0 times less than the Michigan average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Menominee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Menominee 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	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.7%	5.9%	2.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	90.7%	5.6%	2.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2011	91.1%	5.2%	2.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2012	91.3%	4.5%	2.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
2013	91.7%	4.2%	2.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	92.9%	3.6%	2.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	92.1%	4.4%	2.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	91.7%	4.3%	2.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2017	91.7%	4.3%	1.9%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2018	91.8%	3.9%	2.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%
2019	90.9%	3.9%	2.8%	1.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2020	89.2%	5.9%	2.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%
2021	88.8%	6.2%	3.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	88.4%	5.8%	4.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	86.8%	7.3%	3.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.7%	7.9%	3.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	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 2014 at 92.9%. Overall it fell from 90.7% in 2009 to 86.7% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Menominee County: its share of workers rose from 5.9% in 2009 to 7.9% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Menominee County

Early BirdThe earliest start among Michigan's 83 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 6:54 AM.
Rush-Hour DodgersThe lowest share of rush-hour departures among Michigan's 83 counties: only 35.4% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.
Dawn PatrolThe 2nd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Michigan's 83 counties: 30.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Menominee County?

The bars show when commuters in Menominee 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		12.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		10.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		4.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Menominee County is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 12.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.3% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 30.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Michigan: 35.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Menominee 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 Menominee 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 Menominee 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	Menominee County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:06 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:01 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:57 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:54 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Menominee County were on the road by 6:54 AM, 21 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Menominee County now leave 44 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 Menominee County has moved 22 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Menominee County in the whole series.

How does Menominee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Menominee County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.3 min	21.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.9%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	3.6%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Menominee County is 16.3 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 3.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Menominee County, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Menominee County, MI is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 23,247 residents against a local median of 36,813. Where Menominee County, MI breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 20% above the local median of 13.6 min at 16.3 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 14.2 min on one-way commute, so Menominee County, MI sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Menominee County, MI has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Menominee County, MI	23,247	16.3 min #5/6	7.9% #5/6	6:54 AM #1/6
Marinette County, WI	42,046	15.9 min	7.9%	7:09 AM
Dickinson County, MI	25,954	12.2 min	9.0%	7:24 AM
Door County, WI	30,445	13.6 min	13.4%	7:27 AM
Delta County, MI	36,813	13.3 min	5.8%	7:51 AM
Oconto County, WI	39,589	26.4 min	12.5%	6:56 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Menominee County, Michigan.

Is commuting expensive in Menominee County, Michigan?

Commuters here spend an estimated 136 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,203 at a typical national wage. That's 24% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Menominee County, Michigan?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Menominee County, Michigan. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Menominee County, Michigan?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% 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).