Shiawassee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Shiawassee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Shiawassee County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 217 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% more time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.

Shiawassee County holds about 0.7% of Michigan's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Shiawassee County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,691 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)
Shiawassee County	26.0 min	52.1 min	217 hrs/yr	$6,726	1,611
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

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On average, it takes 26.0 minutes to get to work in Shiawassee County. That's 16% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 93% of counties in Michigan

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 8.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Shiawassee County

• Car: 88.5%
• Worked at Home: 8.3%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Other: 0.8%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Shiawassee County: 6.9 times less than the Michigan average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Shiawassee County: 15.0 times less than the Michigan average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Shiawassee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Shiawassee 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.

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• Worked at Home
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	93.8%	3.1%	1.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	3.3%	1.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	93.1%	3.3%	1.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	92.6%	3.6%	2.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.9%	3.5%	2.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	92.1%	3.9%	2.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	91.9%	4.0%	2.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	91.2%	4.8%	2.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	91.0%	5.4%	2.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	91.1%	5.3%	2.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	91.6%	5.3%	2.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	91.3%	6.3%	1.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	91.2%	6.3%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	6.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	89.6%	7.5%	1.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	88.5%	8.3%	1.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, down 5.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Shiawassee County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 8.3% in 2024, up 5.2 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 2.6% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Shiawassee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Shiawassee County?

The bars show when commuters in Shiawassee 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	12:00-4:59 AM Shiawassee County6.7% Michigan5.3%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Shiawassee County5.0% Michigan3.9%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Shiawassee County7.4% Michigan5.1%	7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Shiawassee County9.3% Michigan8.0%	9.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Shiawassee County9.5% Michigan9.0%	9.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Shiawassee County16.1% Michigan13.0%	16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Shiawassee County11.6% Michigan12.1%	11.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Shiawassee County7.0% Michigan10.9%	7.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Shiawassee County4.3% Michigan5.6%	4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Shiawassee County5.1% Michigan6.7%	5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Shiawassee County1.6% Michigan3.2%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Shiawassee County2.0% Michigan1.6%	2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Shiawassee County8.4% Michigan8.5%	8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Shiawassee County5.9% Michigan7.1%	5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Shiawassee County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Michigan's: 44.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.1%) 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 Shiawassee 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 Shiawassee 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 Shiawassee 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Shiawassee County	Michigan	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Shiawassee County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Shiawassee County now leave 15 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 Shiawassee County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Shiawassee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Shiawassee County	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.0 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	8.3%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Shiawassee County is 26.0 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.1% 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