Wyoming Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Wyoming, 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 Wyoming: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wyoming 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 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Michigan average of 21.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wyoming would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,941 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)
Wyoming	18.8 min	37.6 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,852	3,419
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.

Wyoming Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.8 minutes to get to work in Wyoming. That's 16% 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 10.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wyoming

Commute Mode Trends in Wyoming, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wyoming 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.6%	3.1%	1.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.7%	2.8%	1.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	94.1%	2.5%	1.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	93.8%	2.6%	1.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.4%	3.0%	1.7%	0.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.4%	3.3%	1.7%	1.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	92.2%	3.1%	2.0%	0.8%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	91.0%	3.2%	2.5%	0.9%	1.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	90.8%	3.3%	2.6%	1.2%	1.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	91.8%	2.7%	2.5%	1.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	91.8%	2.3%	3.1%	1.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	89.9%	3.9%	3.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	88.9%	6.1%	3.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	87.5%	7.6%	2.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	86.7%	8.8%	2.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.7%	10.3%	1.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 94.1%. Overall it fell from 93.6% in 2009 to 85.7% in 2024, down 7.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wyoming: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 10.3% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit peaked at 3.9% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 1.7%.

Commute Start Times in Wyoming

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wyoming?

The bars show when commuters in Wyoming 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		4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wyoming is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Michigan. Early starts are less common than in Michigan: 12.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Michigan's: 43.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.0% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.9%) 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 Wyoming, 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 Wyoming 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 Wyoming 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	Wyoming	Michigan	United States
2009	7:48 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:47 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:46 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:51 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:51 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wyoming were on the road by 7:51 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:48 AM). Across Michigan, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Wyoming now leave 13 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 Wyoming has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Wyoming in the whole series.

How does Wyoming's commute time compare?

Metric	Wyoming	Michigan	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 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	10.3%	13.5%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wyoming is 18.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.3 minutes in Michigan.

1.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Michigan. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Michigan.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Wyoming, MI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Wyoming, MI	77,126	18.8 min #3/3	10.3% #2/3	7:51 AM #2/3
Grand Rapids, MI	196,641	17.4 min	13.9%	7:53 AM
Walker, MI	24,855	17.9 min	10.1%	7:42 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wyoming, Michigan.

Is living in Wyoming, Michigan good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 157 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,852 at a typical national wage. That's 12% less than the typical Michigan commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Wyoming, Michigan?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Wyoming, 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.