Roseville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Roseville, 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 Roseville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Roseville spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 195 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Roseville holds about 0.5% of Michigan's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Roseville would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,420 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)
Roseville	23.4 min	46.8 min	195 hrs/yr	$6,051	3,735
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.

Roseville Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.4 minutes to get to work in Roseville. That's 5% longer 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 10.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Roseville

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

Commute Mode Trends in Roseville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Roseville 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	95.5%	2.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	95.1%	2.0%	1.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	95.0%	1.8%	1.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	94.5%	2.1%	1.1%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2013	93.7%	2.3%	1.4%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2014	93.4%	2.1%	1.3%	0.5%	1.9%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2015	93.8%	1.7%	1.2%	0.4%	2.1%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%
2016	93.7%	1.9%	1.2%	0.5%	1.8%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%
2017	93.5%	1.8%	1.4%	0.4%	2.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2018	93.0%	1.7%	1.7%	0.7%	2.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	93.1%	2.0%	1.7%	0.7%	1.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	93.3%	2.6%	1.7%	0.7%	1.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2021	91.2%	4.8%	1.8%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	89.2%	6.6%	1.6%	1.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	87.4%	8.7%	1.3%	1.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	85.2%	10.4%	1.6%	1.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.5% in 2009 to 85.2% in 2024, down 10.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Roseville: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 10.4% in 2024, up 8.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit peaked at 2.1% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Roseville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Roseville?

The bars show when commuters in Roseville 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		7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Roseville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% 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 spread out than in Michigan: 40.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.0%) 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 Roseville, 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 Roseville 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 Roseville 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	Roseville	Michigan	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Roseville were on the road by 7:35 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Roseville now leave 3 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 Roseville has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Roseville's commute time compare?

Metric	Roseville	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.4 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	10.4%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Roseville is 23.4 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Roseville, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Roseville, MI compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Roseville, MI	47,149	23.4 min #1/3	10.4% #3/3	7:35 AM #1/3
Eastpointe, MI	33,982	24.0 min	10.9%	8:07 AM
St. Clair Shores, MI	56,891	23.5 min	13.7%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Roseville, Michigan.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 195 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,051 at a typical national wage. That's 10% more than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Roseville, Michigan?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Roseville, 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.