Grand Isle County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grand Isle County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grand Isle County spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 276 hours, about 11.5 full days, spent commuting.

That is 61% more time on the road than the Vermont average of 20.6 minutes each way, a difference of 12.5 minutes.

Grand Isle County holds about 1.2% of Vermont's population but accounts for roughly 1.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grand Isle County would save about 110 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,420 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)
Grand Isle County	33.1 min	66.2 min	276 hrs/yr	$8,551	1,030
Vermont	20.6 min	41.2 min	172 hrs/yr	$5,319	718
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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: Vermont Counties

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On average, it takes 33.1 minutes to get to work in Grand Isle County. That's 47% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Vermont

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 16.2% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 81.4%
• Worked at Home: 16.2%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Other: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.1% unusually high
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Grand Isle County, versus 0.1% in Vermont.

Taxi commuting is unusually common in Grand Isle County: 5.5 times more than the Vermont average (0.1% vs 0.0%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Grand Isle County: 4.2 times less than the Vermont average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Grand Isle County: just 1.6%, 3.1 times below the Vermont average of 5.0%.

How does Grand Isle County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grand Isle County	Vermont	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.1 min	20.6 min	22.5 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	16.2%	15.0%	13.4%
Walked	1.5%	4.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in Grand Isle County is 33.1 minutes, longer than the 20.6 minutes in Vermont.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Vermont. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 4.3% in Vermont.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau