Caledonia Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Caledonia: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Caledonia spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 193 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.4 minutes.

Caledonia holds about 0.4% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Caledonia would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,397 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)
Caledonia	23.2 min	46.4 min	193 hrs/yr	$5,992	1,452
Wisconsin	18.8 min	37.5 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,846	811
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.

Caledonia Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.2 minutes to get to work in Caledonia. That's 3% longer 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 10.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Caledonia

• Car: 87.9%
• Worked at Home: 10.6%
• Walked: 0.7% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Other: 0.3%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Caledonia: 3.8 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.7% vs 2.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Caledonia: 258.6 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 1.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Caledonia: 9.7 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Caledonia: just 0.7%, 4.2 times below the Wisconsin average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Caledonia, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Caledonia 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
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Other
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Motorcycle	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle
2009	93.9%	3.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.4%
2010	94.5%	3.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.4%
2011	94.4%	3.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%
2012	94.7%	4.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	94.4%	4.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	4.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%
2015	92.8%	4.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	1.1%	0.1%
2016	92.6%	4.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	1.4%	0.1%
2017	93.2%	4.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	1.2%	0.1%
2018	93.9%	4.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%
2019	94.4%	4.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2020	94.4%	4.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	92.1%	6.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	89.8%	8.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	89.2%	9.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	10.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	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 2012 at 94.7%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, down 6.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Caledonia: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Caledonia

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Caledonia?

The bars show when commuters in Caledonia 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 Wisconsin for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Caledonia6.1% Wisconsin6.9%	6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Caledonia4.0% Wisconsin4.7%	4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Caledonia4.4% Wisconsin6.1%	4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Caledonia12.9% Wisconsin8.5%	12.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Caledonia10.9% Wisconsin10.4%	10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Caledonia15.0% Wisconsin14.7%	15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Caledonia13.7% Wisconsin12.7%	13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Caledonia8.5% Wisconsin9.0%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Caledonia3.4% Wisconsin4.0%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Caledonia3.8% Wisconsin4.7%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Caledonia1.4% Wisconsin2.4%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Caledonia1.8% Wisconsin1.3%	1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Caledonia7.4% Wisconsin8.1%	7.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Caledonia6.5% Wisconsin6.4%	6.5%

Caledonia Wisconsin Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Caledonia is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are less common than in Wisconsin: 14.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Wisconsin's: 48.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.0%) 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 Caledonia, 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 Caledonia 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 Caledonia next to Wisconsin 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.

• Caledonia
• Wisconsin
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Caledonia	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Caledonia were on the road by 7:23 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:18 AM). That goes against the trend across Wisconsin, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Caledonia 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 Caledonia has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Caledonia's commute time compare?

Metric	Caledonia	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.2 min	18.8 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	10.6%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Caledonia is 23.2 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau