Fond du Lac Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Fond du Lac, 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 Fond du Lac: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fond du Lac spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 126 hours, about 5.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.7 minutes.

Fond du Lac holds about 0.6% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Fond du Lac would save about 50 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,558 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)
Fond du Lac	15.1 min	30.2 min	126 hrs/yr	$3,896	1,620
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.

Fond du Lac Commute Map

On average, it takes 15.1 minutes to get to work in Fond du Lac. That's 33% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fond du Lac

Public transit is unusually rare in Fond du Lac: 4.8 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Fond du Lac: 4.0 times more than the Wisconsin average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Fond du Lac, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fond du Lac 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	Taxi	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	92.6%	1.8%	2.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.8%	0.5%
2010	92.2%	1.9%	2.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%
2011	91.3%	2.2%	3.5%	0.5%	0.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.5%
2012	91.5%	2.1%	3.2%	0.5%	0.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.6%
2013	92.0%	1.9%	2.7%	0.7%	0.1%	1.6%	0.6%	0.4%
2014	91.8%	2.0%	2.8%	0.6%	0.3%	1.5%	0.4%	0.5%
2015	92.4%	2.0%	3.0%	0.5%	0.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2016	92.7%	2.2%	2.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%
2017	92.9%	2.2%	2.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%
2018	92.7%	2.3%	2.9%	0.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%
2019	91.7%	3.0%	2.9%	0.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2020	91.0%	3.9%	3.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%
2021	89.5%	5.1%	2.6%	0.6%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%
2022	86.3%	7.6%	3.1%	0.6%	0.8%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2023	85.8%	8.8%	3.0%	0.6%	0.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	85.5%	8.7%	3.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 92.9%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 85.5% in 2024, down 7.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fond du Lac: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

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

Biking peaked at 1.6% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.5%.

Commute Start Times in Fond du Lac

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fond du Lac?

The bars show when commuters in Fond du Lac 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		12.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.5%

Fond du Lac Wisconsin Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Fond du Lac is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 12.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.9% across Wisconsin. Early starts are more common than in Wisconsin: 23.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Wisconsin: 37.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.5%) 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 Fond du Lac, 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 Fond du Lac 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 Fond du Lac 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	Fond du Lac	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fond du Lac were on the road by 7:19 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wisconsin, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Fond du Lac now leave 19 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 Fond du Lac has moved 16 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Fond du Lac in the whole series.

How does Fond du Lac's commute time compare?

Metric	Fond du Lac	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.1 min	18.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 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	8.7%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.7%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fond du Lac is 15.1 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 3.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin?

Commuters here spend an estimated 126 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,896 at a typical national wage. That's 20% less than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Fond du Lac, 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 Fond du Lac, 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.