De Pere Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in De Pere, Wisconsin: 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 De Pere: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in De Pere spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 134 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

De Pere holds about 0.3% of Wisconsin's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in De Pere would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,667 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)
De Pere	16.1 min	32.3 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,167	2,495
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.

De Pere Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.1 minutes to get to work in De Pere. That's 28% 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 12.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in De Pere

Public transit is unusually rare in De Pere: 4.9 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in De Pere, versus 0.2% in Wisconsin.

Biking is unusually rare in De Pere: 151.8 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in De Pere, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in De Pere 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	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	84.0%	6.2%	6.7%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	1.0%
2010	81.1%	7.4%	8.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	1.1%
2011	82.8%	5.1%	9.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%
2012	84.8%	5.1%	8.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%
2013	88.4%	4.1%	6.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	89.3%	3.3%	5.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	88.4%	3.5%	6.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	89.0%	4.1%	5.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	87.9%	4.6%	6.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	89.1%	4.3%	5.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	89.9%	4.1%	5.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	88.3%	6.3%	4.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.3%	7.7%	5.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.4%	9.2%	4.1%	1.7%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.7%	10.1%	4.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	81.1%	12.3%	4.8%	1.3%	0.2%	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 2019 at 89.9%. Overall it fell from 84.0% in 2009 to 81.1% in 2024, down 2.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in De Pere: its share of workers rose from 6.2% in 2009 to 12.3% in 2024, up 6.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.7% to 4.8% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in De Pere

What Time Do People Leave for Work in De Pere?

The bars show when commuters in De Pere 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		4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		17.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in De Pere is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are less common than in Wisconsin: 15.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Wisconsin's: 48.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.1%) 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 De Pere, 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 De Pere 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 De Pere 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	De Pere	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:50 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in De Pere were on the road by 7:37 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wisconsin, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in De Pere now leave 1 minute 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 De Pere has moved 4 minutes later.

How does De Pere's commute time compare?

Metric	De Pere	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.1 min	18.8 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	12.3%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	4.8%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in De Pere is 16.1 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 4.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in De Pere, Wisconsin.

What is the financial impact of commuting in De Pere, Wisconsin?

Commuters here spend an estimated 134 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,167 at a typical national wage. That's 14% less than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in De Pere, Wisconsin?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in De Pere, Wisconsin. 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.

How common is public transit use in De Pere, Wisconsin?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Wisconsin, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.