Fond du Lac County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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

Commuters in Fond du Lac County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 144 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Fond du Lac County holds about 1.8% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 1.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Fond du Lac County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,781 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 County	17.2 min	34.5 min	144 hrs/yr	$4,452	833
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.

Commute Time Map: Wisconsin Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Wisconsin

Ashland County (12.8 min)
Door County (13.6 min)
Eau Claire County (15.3 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Wisconsin

Oconto County (26.4 min)
St. Croix County (25.3 min)
Waushara County (23.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Fond du Lac County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.2 minutes to get to work in Fond du Lac County. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fond du Lac County

Public transit is unusually rare in Fond du Lac County: 9.8 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Fond du Lac County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fond du Lac County 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	91.5%	3.5%	2.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.5%
2010	91.4%	3.8%	2.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%
2011	90.4%	3.9%	3.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%
2012	91.0%	3.8%	3.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%
2013	91.4%	3.6%	3.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%
2014	90.9%	3.7%	3.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%
2015	90.9%	3.7%	3.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	90.9%	4.0%	3.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%
2017	91.0%	4.0%	3.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	91.0%	4.0%	3.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	91.1%	4.2%	3.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	91.2%	4.6%	2.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	89.8%	5.9%	2.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	88.2%	7.2%	2.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	87.9%	8.2%	2.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	86.9%	9.0%	2.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 86.9% in 2024, down 4.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fond du Lac County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Fond du Lac County

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

The bars show when commuters in Fond du Lac County 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		11.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Fond du Lac County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are more common than in Wisconsin: 25.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Wisconsin: 40.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.9%) 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 Fond du Lac County, 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 County 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 County 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 County	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:12 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fond du Lac County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:22 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wisconsin, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Fond du Lac County now leave 28 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 County has moved 8 minutes earlier.

How does Fond du Lac County's commute time compare?

Metric	Fond du Lac County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.2 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.0%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fond du Lac County is 17.2 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 2.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Fond du Lac County, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Fond du Lac County, WI is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 104,137 residents against a local median of 88,711. Where Fond du Lac County, WI breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 22% below the local median of 11.5% at 9.0%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 17.2 min against a local median of 20.9 min, 18% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 18% below the local median it puts Fond du Lac County, WI at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.7% on work from home, so Fond du Lac County, WI sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Fond du Lac County, WI has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Fond du Lac County, WI	104,137	17.2 min #2/6	9.0% #5/6	7:10 AM #3/6
Winnebago County, WI	171,769	16.7 min	11.5%	7:28 AM
Dodge County, WI	88,711	20.9 min	8.6%	7:02 AM
Calumet County, WI	52,942	18.5 min	14.4%	7:18 AM
Washington County, WI	137,879	23.5 min	13.9%	7:18 AM
Green Lake County, WI	19,263	21.9 min	11.0%	7:00 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.

Is commuting expensive in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin?

Commuters here spend an estimated 144 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,452 at a typical national wage. That's 8% less than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Wisconsin, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Wisconsin?

Among counties in Wisconsin, the shortest average commutes are in Ashland County (12.8 min), Door County (13.6 min), Eau Claire County (15.3 min). The longest are in Oconto County (26.4 min), St. Croix County (25.3 min), Waushara County (23.9 min).