Missaukee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Missaukee 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 Missaukee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Missaukee County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 170 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

Missaukee County holds about 0.2% of Michigan's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Missaukee County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,114 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)
Missaukee County	20.5 min	40.9 min	170 hrs/yr	$5,285	817
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

Missaukee County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.5 minutes to get to work in Missaukee County. That's 9% 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 5.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Missaukee County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Missaukee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Missaukee 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	86.5%	6.3%	4.1%	0.5%	0.5%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	87.7%	5.7%	4.0%	0.6%	0.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	88.9%	5.7%	3.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	90.0%	4.6%	3.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	90.0%	4.4%	4.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	90.5%	4.5%	3.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	90.6%	4.9%	3.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	90.2%	4.7%	3.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	89.5%	4.7%	4.2%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	90.0%	4.9%	3.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	91.0%	4.4%	3.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.8%	4.0%	3.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	90.8%	4.7%	2.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	90.6%	4.7%	2.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	89.2%	5.3%	3.3%	1.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.9%	5.2%	2.7%	0.9%	0.8%	0.4%	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 2020 at 91.8%. Overall it rose from 86.5% in 2009 to 89.9% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Biking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Missaukee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Missaukee County?

The bars show when commuters in Missaukee 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		8.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Missaukee County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 17.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Michigan: 52.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.2%) 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 Missaukee 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 Missaukee 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 Missaukee 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	Missaukee County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Missaukee County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Missaukee County now leave 6 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 Missaukee County has moved 13 minutes later.

How does Missaukee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Missaukee County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 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	5.2%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	2.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Missaukee County is 20.5 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Missaukee County, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Missaukee County, MI is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 15,207 residents against a local median of 23,737. Missaukee County, MI's work from home, at 5.2%, runs 30% below the 7.4% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 5.0% on work from home, so Missaukee County, MI sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Missaukee County, MI has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Missaukee County, MI	15,207	20.5 min #2/6	5.2% #6/6	7:31 AM #4/6
Kalkaska County, MI	18,239	26.9 min	7.4%	7:20 AM
Osceola County, MI	23,226	22.1 min	6.2%	7:21 AM
Clare County, MI	31,218	23.9 min	10.9%	7:33 AM
Roscommon County, MI	23,737	20.8 min	11.2%	7:39 AM
Wexford County, MI	34,076	17.8 min	7.1%	7:25 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Missaukee County, Michigan.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 170 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,285 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Missaukee County, Michigan?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Missaukee 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.

Which counties in Michigan have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).