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Montmorency County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Montmorency County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Montmorency County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 190 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Montmorency County holds about 0.1% of Michigan's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Montmorency County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,354 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)
Montmorency County 22.8 min 45.6 min 190 hrs/yr $5,884 620
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
  1. Luce County (11.4 min)
  2. Dickinson County (12.2 min)
  3. Schoolcraft County (12.5 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Michigan
  1. Lapeer County (31.3 min)
  2. Lake County (31.1 min)
  3. Livingston County (28.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Montmorency County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.8 minutes to get to work in Montmorency County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% 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 10.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Montmorency County

  • Car: 87.6%
  • Worked at Home: 10.1%
  • Walked: 1.3%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Montmorency County, versus 0.1% in Michigan.

Public transit is essentially absent in Montmorency County, versus 0.9% in Michigan.

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

Commute Mode Trends in Montmorency County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Montmorency 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 87.0% 6.7% 4.3% 1.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 87.3% 6.2% 5.2% 1.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 87.0% 6.7% 4.5% 1.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 88.7% 6.7% 4.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 90.4% 5.9% 3.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 91.5% 5.0% 3.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2015 90.3% 6.0% 3.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 91.3% 5.8% 2.2% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 91.7% 5.5% 1.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 92.1% 5.5% 1.3% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 90.6% 5.8% 2.6% 0.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 90.3% 5.6% 3.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 89.7% 6.4% 3.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 88.4% 7.1% 3.8% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 88.3% 7.8% 3.3% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 87.6% 10.1% 1.3% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 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 92.1%. Overall it rose from 87.0% in 2009 to 87.6% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Montmorency County: its share of workers rose from 6.7% in 2009 to 10.1% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.3% to 1.3% of workers (down 3.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Montmorency County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe 3rd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Michigan's 83 counties: the typical start is 22 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Montmorency County?

The bars show when commuters in Montmorency 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
8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
16.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Montmorency County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 21.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Michigan: 47.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.4%) 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 Montmorency 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 Montmorency 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 Montmorency 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 Montmorency County Michigan United States
2009 7:50 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:46 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:43 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:39 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:33 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:28 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 7:23 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:26 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:34 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:33 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:38 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:32 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:30 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:28 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Montmorency County were on the road by 7:28 AM, 22 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:50 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Montmorency County now leave 10 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 Montmorency County has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Montmorency County's commute time compare?

Metric Montmorency County Michigan US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.8 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 10.1% 13.5% 15.0%
Walked 1.3% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Montmorency County is 22.8 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Montmorency County, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Montmorency County, MI is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 9,516 residents against a local median of 20,885. The measure that sets Montmorency County, MI apart most is one-way commute: 22.8 min, 23% above the local median of 18.5 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 5.1 min on one-way commute, so Montmorency County, MI sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Montmorency County, MI has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Montmorency County, MI 9,516 22.8 min #6/6 10.1% #4/6 7:28 AM #2/6
Oscoda County, MI 8,425 18.5 min 12.1% 7:16 AM
Otsego County, MI 25,584 16.2 min 10.2% 7:36 AM
Cheboygan County, MI 25,865 21.3 min 10.1% 7:30 AM
Crawford County, MI 13,369 17.0 min 8.4% 7:44 AM
Ogemaw County, MI 20,885 20.0 min 9.6% 7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Montmorency County, Michigan.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 190 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,884 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Montmorency County, Michigan?

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

Do people use public transit in Montmorency County, Michigan?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Michigan, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).