Roscommon County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Roscommon County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Roscommon 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 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Roscommon 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 Roscommon County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,145 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)
Roscommon County	20.8 min	41.5 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,362	1,043
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

Roscommon County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Roscommon County. That's 7% 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 11.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Roscommon County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Roscommon County: 3.3 times less than the Michigan average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Roscommon County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Roscommon 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.4%	7.8%	3.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	88.1%	7.1%	3.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.3%	6.0%	2.6%	0.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.1%	5.0%	3.2%	0.7%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	88.1%	5.0%	3.7%	0.7%	1.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.4%	5.2%	2.7%	1.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.3%	3.8%	2.5%	0.8%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.7%	5.1%	2.8%	1.1%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.7%	4.7%	2.7%	1.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.6%	4.8%	1.9%	1.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.5%	5.8%	2.5%	1.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.8%	7.6%	3.3%	1.1%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.1%	8.3%	2.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.3%	9.5%	2.4%	1.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.7%	10.9%	1.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.5%	11.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2015 at 91.3% and lowest in 2023 at 85.7%. Overall it fell from 87.4% in 2009 to 86.5% in 2024, down 0.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Roscommon County: its share of workers rose from 7.8% in 2009 to 11.2% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.7% to 1.0% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.3% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Roscommon County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Roscommon County?

The bars show when commuters in Roscommon 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		6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Roscommon County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Michigan. Early starts are less common than in Michigan: 12.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Michigan: 47.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Roscommon 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 Roscommon 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 Roscommon 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	Roscommon County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:55 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:54 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:52 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:52 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:57 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:52 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:48 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:53 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:52 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:48 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:52 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:52 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:45 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Roscommon County were on the road by 7:39 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:55 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Roscommon County now leave 1 minute 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 Roscommon County has moved 15 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Roscommon County in the whole series.

How does Roscommon County's commute time compare?

Metric	Roscommon County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 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	11.2%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

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

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Roscommon County, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Roscommon County, MI is typical in size for this group, 23,737 residents against a local median of 20,885, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Roscommon County, MI apart most is work from home: 11.2%, 17% above the local median of 9.6%.

The counties themselves spread 5.7% on work from home, so Roscommon County, MI sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Roscommon County, MI has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Roscommon County, MI	23,737	20.8 min #4/6	11.2% #1/6	7:39 AM #4/6
Crawford County, MI	13,369	17.0 min	8.4%	7:44 AM
Gladwin County, MI	25,693	23.9 min	9.9%	7:30 AM
Clare County, MI	31,218	23.9 min	10.9%	7:33 AM
Missaukee County, MI	15,207	20.5 min	5.2%	7:31 AM
Ogemaw County, MI	20,885	20.0 min	9.6%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Roscommon County, Michigan.

Is commuting expensive in Roscommon County, Michigan?

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,362 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Roscommon County, Michigan?

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

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Roscommon County, Michigan?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Michigan, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across 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).