Presque Isle County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Presque Isle 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 Presque Isle County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Presque Isle County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.

Presque Isle 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 Presque Isle County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,171 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)
Presque Isle County	21.0 min	42.0 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,427	703
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

Presque Isle County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.0 minutes to get to work in Presque Isle County. That's 6% 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 10.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Presque Isle County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Presque Isle County: 3.5 times more than the Michigan average (0.2% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Presque Isle County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Presque Isle 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	89.7%	5.7%	1.1%	2.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	89.3%	5.7%	1.3%	2.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	90.4%	5.4%	1.7%	1.9%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.8%	5.1%	1.1%	2.1%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.1%	5.6%	0.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.0%	5.4%	1.3%	2.0%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.1%	4.5%	1.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	90.3%	4.6%	1.4%	3.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.0%	4.3%	1.2%	3.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.2%	3.7%	1.2%	3.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.2%	3.6%	0.8%	3.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	89.9%	5.0%	2.7%	1.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	88.6%	6.2%	2.1%	2.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%
2022	85.7%	9.0%	2.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%
2023	85.5%	8.9%	2.8%	1.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%
2024	83.9%	10.4%	2.7%	1.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 92.2%. Overall it fell from 89.7% in 2009 to 83.9% in 2024, down 5.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Presque Isle County: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 10.4% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 1.7% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Presque Isle County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Presque Isle County?

The bars show when commuters in Presque Isle 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		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Presque Isle County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 18.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Michigan: 47.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Presque Isle 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 Presque Isle 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 Presque Isle 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	Presque Isle County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 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	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Presque Isle County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:45 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Presque Isle County now leave 1 minute 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 Presque Isle County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Presque Isle County's commute time compare?

Metric	Presque Isle County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 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	10.4%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Presque Isle County is about the same as in Michigan.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Presque Isle County, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Presque Isle County, MI is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 13,209 residents against a local median of 10,397. Nothing separates Presque Isle 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, 3% above the local median at 10.4% against 10.1%. Presque Isle County, MI has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Presque Isle County, MI	13,209	21.0 min #3/6	10.4% #3/6	7:37 AM #5/6
Alpena County, MI	28,880	13.5 min	7.8%	7:46 AM
Montmorency County, MI	9,516	22.8 min	10.1%	7:28 AM
Alcona County, MI	10,397	23.0 min	10.9%	7:26 AM
Cheboygan County, MI	25,865	21.3 min	10.1%	7:30 AM
Oscoda County, MI	8,425	18.5 min	12.1%	7:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Presque Isle County, Michigan.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 175 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,427 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Presque Isle 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).