Midland Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Midland, 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 Midland: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Midland spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 115 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 7.5 minutes.

Midland holds about 0.4% of Michigan's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Midland would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,427 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)
Midland	13.8 min	27.6 min	115 hrs/yr	$3,568	2,447
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.

Midland Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.8 minutes to get to work in Midland. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 12.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Midland

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Midland: 14.0 times less than the Michigan average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Midland, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Midland 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	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.0%	5.2%	2.3%	0.9%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	90.2%	4.6%	2.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	91.8%	3.8%	1.9%	0.7%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	91.6%	3.8%	2.0%	0.9%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	91.2%	4.6%	1.8%	0.8%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	92.0%	4.1%	1.4%	0.9%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	92.0%	4.1%	1.3%	0.9%	0.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	91.8%	4.3%	1.1%	1.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	92.0%	4.1%	1.7%	1.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	92.7%	3.5%	1.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	92.3%	4.3%	1.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	91.0%	5.7%	1.5%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.0%	8.6%	2.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	86.9%	9.8%	1.4%	0.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	85.0%	11.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.3%	12.4%	1.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	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 2018 at 92.7%. Overall it fell from 90.0% in 2009 to 84.3% in 2024, down 5.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Midland: its share of workers rose from 5.2% in 2009 to 12.4% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 1.5% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Midland

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Midland?

The bars show when commuters in Midland 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		2.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		19.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Midland is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Michigan. Early starts are less common than in Michigan: 9.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Michigan: 55.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.5%) 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 Midland, 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 Midland 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 Midland 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	Midland	Michigan	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:49 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:44 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Midland were on the road by 7:46 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Midland now leave 8 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 Midland has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Midland's commute time compare?

Metric	Midland	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.8 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	12.4%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Midland is 13.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Midland, Michigan.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 115 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,568 at a typical national wage. That's 35% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Midland, Michigan?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Midland, 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.