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Wyandotte Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Wyandotte: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wyandotte spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.

Wyandotte 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 Wyandotte would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,236 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)
Wyandotte 21.6 min 43.3 min 180 hrs/yr $5,589 3,871
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.

Wyandotte Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.6 minutes to get to work in Wyandotte. That's 3% shorter 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 10.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wyandotte

  • Car: 86.2%
  • Worked at Home: 10.7%
  • Walked: 1.8%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Bicycle: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Wyandotte: 3.7 times more than the Michigan average (0.2% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Wyandotte: 112.3 times less than the Michigan average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Wyandotte, versus 0.1% in Michigan.

Commute Mode Trends in Wyandotte, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wyandotte 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 Bicycle Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 93.8% 1.3% 2.7% 0.5% 0.6% 0.2% 0.9% 0.0%
2010 93.3% 1.2% 3.1% 0.2% 0.6% 0.4% 1.1% 0.0%
2011 91.7% 1.5% 3.5% 0.3% 0.6% 0.7% 1.7% 0.0%
2012 92.4% 1.6% 3.5% 0.4% 0.6% 0.4% 1.1% 0.0%
2013 92.2% 1.7% 3.4% 0.3% 0.5% 0.5% 1.4% 0.0%
2014 93.6% 1.5% 2.8% 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 1.1% 0.1%
2015 93.8% 1.4% 2.6% 0.2% 0.6% 0.1% 1.2% 0.1%
2016 94.6% 1.5% 1.7% 0.4% 0.6% 0.1% 0.9% 0.1%
2017 94.5% 1.3% 2.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.1% 0.6% 0.1%
2018 94.2% 1.7% 2.4% 0.5% 0.6% 0.0% 0.5% 0.1%
2019 93.8% 2.3% 2.1% 0.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.5% 0.1%
2020 90.3% 6.2% 2.2% 0.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1%
2021 89.9% 7.0% 2.0% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2022 88.2% 8.9% 1.5% 0.8% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2023 86.8% 9.7% 2.2% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2024 86.2% 10.7% 1.8% 0.7% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 94.6%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 86.2% in 2024, down 7.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wyandotte: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 10.7% in 2024, up 9.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.8% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Wyandotte

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wyandotte?

The bars show when commuters in Wyandotte 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
5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
11.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
8.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wyandotte is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Michigan. Early starts are less common than in Michigan: 12.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Michigan's: 45.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.2%) 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 Wyandotte, 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 Wyandotte 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 Wyandotte 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 Wyandotte Michigan United States
2009 7:47 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:49 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:49 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:47 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:48 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:45 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:43 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:42 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:43 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:41 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:40 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:50 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:50 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:46 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:47 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:47 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wyandotte were on the road by 7:47 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Wyandotte now leave 9 minutes 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 Wyandotte has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Wyandotte's commute time compare?

Metric Wyandotte Michigan US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.6 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 10.7% 13.5% 15.0%
Walked 1.8% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Wyandotte is 21.6 minutes, longer than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Michigan. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Wyandotte, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Wyandotte, MI 24,450 21.6 min #2/3 10.7% #2/3 7:47 AM #2/3
Lincoln Park, MI 39,240 21.9 min 7.7% 7:28 AM
Southgate, MI 29,366 21.0 min 12.1% 7:48 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wyandotte, Michigan.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 180 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,589 at a typical national wage. That's 1% more than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Wyandotte, Michigan?

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

How common is public transit use in Wyandotte, Michigan?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Michigan, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.