Forest County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Forest County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Forest County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 147 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting.

That is 6% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Forest County holds about 0.2% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Forest County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,822 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)
Forest County	17.6 min	35.3 min	147 hrs/yr	$4,555	226
Wisconsin	18.8 min	37.6 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,851	811
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: Wisconsin Counties

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On average, it takes 17.6 minutes to get to work in Forest County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 6.5% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Walked: 3.2%
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.5% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is unusually common in Forest County: 4.7 times more than the Wisconsin average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Forest County, versus 0.2% in Wisconsin.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Forest County: 3.7 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

How does Forest County's commute time compare?

Metric	Forest County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.6 min	18.8 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	6.5%	11.6%	13.4%
Walked	3.2%	2.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	1.2%	3.5%

The average commute time in Forest County is 17.6 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Wisconsin. 3.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.7% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau