Taylor Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Taylor, 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 Taylor: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Taylor spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.

Taylor holds about 0.6% of Michigan's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Taylor would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,952 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)
Taylor	18.9 min	37.8 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,880	4,496
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.

Taylor Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.9 minutes to get to work in Taylor. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Taylor

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Taylor: 4.1 times more than the Michigan average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Taylor: 3.6 times more than the Michigan average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Taylor, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Taylor 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	Taxi	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.8%	1.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	95.2%	1.2%	1.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	94.9%	1.4%	1.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	95.4%	1.4%	1.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.4%
2013	96.0%	1.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.5%
2014	95.1%	1.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%
2015	95.1%	2.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	94.9%	2.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%
2017	94.7%	2.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%
2018	94.5%	3.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	94.7%	3.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	92.5%	4.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	90.1%	6.8%	2.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	88.2%	7.9%	2.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	86.2%	9.3%	2.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%
2024	85.6%	10.0%	2.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 96.0%. Overall it fell from 95.8% in 2009 to 85.6% in 2024, down 10.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Taylor: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 10.0% in 2024, up 8.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Taylor

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Taylor?

The bars show when commuters in Taylor 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		7.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Taylor is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 11.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Michigan. Early starts are more common than in Michigan: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Michigan: 38.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.7%) 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 Taylor, 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 Taylor 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 Taylor 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	Taylor	Michigan	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:47 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	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:46 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Taylor were on the road by 7:33 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Taylor now leave 5 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 Taylor has moved 12 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Taylor in the whole series.

How does Taylor's commute time compare?

Metric	Taylor	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.9 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	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.0%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Taylor is 18.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 2.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Taylor, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Taylor, MI is the largest of the 6 cities compared here, 62,081 residents against a local median of 29,366. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Taylor, MI an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 14% below the local median at 18.9 min against 21.8 min. Taylor, MI has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Taylor, MI	62,081	18.9 min #1/6	10.0% #4/6	7:33 AM #2/6
Southgate, MI	29,366	21.0 min	12.1%	7:48 AM
Allen Park, MI	27,928	21.1 min	10.4%	7:36 AM
Inkster, MI	25,428	23.8 min	5.9%	7:56 AM
Lincoln Park, MI	39,240	21.9 min	7.7%	7:28 AM
Dearborn Heights, MI	61,726	21.8 min	12.4%	8:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Taylor, Michigan.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 157 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,880 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Taylor, Michigan?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Taylor, Michigan. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.