Ogemaw County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Ogemaw 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 Ogemaw County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ogemaw County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 167 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Ogemaw 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 Ogemaw County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,069 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)
Ogemaw County	20.0 min	40.1 min	167 hrs/yr	$5,173	967
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

Ogemaw County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.0 minutes to get to work in Ogemaw County. That's 11% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ogemaw County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Ogemaw County: 5.2 times less than the Michigan average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Biking is essentially absent in Ogemaw County, versus 0.3% in Michigan.

Commute Mode Trends in Ogemaw County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ogemaw 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.4%	3.2%	2.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2010	92.0%	3.6%	2.4%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2011	92.1%	3.5%	2.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2012	93.0%	3.6%	2.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	93.2%	3.6%	1.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	92.7%	3.6%	1.7%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	93.0%	3.4%	1.6%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	92.5%	3.6%	1.9%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	92.7%	3.8%	1.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2018	92.6%	4.0%	1.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	93.2%	3.7%	1.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2020	92.9%	4.6%	1.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2021	91.6%	5.4%	1.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	90.3%	6.5%	2.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	89.5%	7.4%	2.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	87.6%	9.6%	1.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2013 at 93.2%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 87.6% in 2024, down 4.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ogemaw County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 9.6% in 2024, up 6.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Ogemaw County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ogemaw County?

The bars show when commuters in Ogemaw 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		6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ogemaw County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 17.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Michigan: 47.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.3%) 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 Ogemaw 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 Ogemaw 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 Ogemaw 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	Ogemaw County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ogemaw County were on the road by 7:43 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:46 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Ogemaw County now leave 5 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 Ogemaw County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Ogemaw County's commute time compare?

Metric	Ogemaw County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.0 min	21.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.6%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ogemaw County is 20.0 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Ogemaw County, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Ogemaw County, MI is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 20,885 residents against a local median of 15,076. Nothing separates Ogemaw County, MI sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 4% below the local median at 9.6% against 9.9%. Ogemaw 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
Ogemaw County, MI	20,885	20.0 min #3/6	9.6% #4/6	7:43 AM #5/6
Oscoda County, MI	8,425	18.5 min	12.1%	7:16 AM
Gladwin County, MI	25,693	23.9 min	9.9%	7:30 AM
Arenac County, MI	15,076	21.0 min	8.1%	7:18 AM
Roscommon County, MI	23,737	20.8 min	11.2%	7:39 AM
Crawford County, MI	13,369	17.0 min	8.4%	7:44 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Ogemaw County, Michigan.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 167 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,173 at a typical national wage. That's 6% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

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

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

Do people use public transit in Ogemaw 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.

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).