Green Bay Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Green Bay, 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 Green Bay: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Green Bay spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.

Green Bay 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 Green Bay would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,695 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)
Green Bay	16.4 min	32.8 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,239	2,406
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.

Green Bay Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.4 minutes to get to work in Green Bay. That's 27% 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 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Green Bay

Commute Mode Trends in Green Bay, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Green Bay 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	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.6%	2.3%	2.6%	2.0%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	90.7%	2.6%	2.5%	1.7%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	89.8%	3.0%	2.7%	1.9%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	89.3%	3.1%	2.9%	1.7%	2.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	88.9%	3.1%	3.7%	1.4%	1.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%
2014	89.7%	3.0%	3.2%	1.4%	1.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	89.7%	2.7%	3.3%	1.5%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	89.5%	2.8%	3.1%	1.4%	2.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	89.6%	3.2%	3.0%	1.3%	1.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	90.1%	3.4%	2.7%	1.2%	1.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	90.1%	3.8%	2.3%	1.4%	1.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	89.4%	5.1%	2.4%	1.3%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	88.6%	6.9%	2.2%	1.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	87.9%	7.5%	2.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	86.9%	8.4%	2.2%	1.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	84.6%	10.5%	2.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 90.7%. Overall it fell from 90.6% in 2009 to 84.6% in 2024, down 6.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Green Bay: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 10.5% in 2024, up 8.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.7% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 2.5%.

Commute Start Times in Green Bay

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Green Bay?

The bars show when commuters in Green Bay 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		8.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Green Bay is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are more common than in Wisconsin: 21.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Wisconsin: 42.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.5%) 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 Green Bay, 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 Green Bay 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 Green Bay 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	Green Bay	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Green Bay were on the road by 7:26 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wisconsin, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Green Bay now leave 12 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 Green Bay has moved 10 minutes earlier.

How does Green Bay's commute time compare?

Metric	Green Bay	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 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 PM – 03:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.5%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Green Bay is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.9% 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

Green Bay, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Green Bay, WI compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Green Bay, WI	105,266	16.4 min #1/2	10.5% #2/2	7:26 AM #2/2
Howard, WI	20,955	17.6 min	14.2%	7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Is living in Green Bay, Wisconsin good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 137 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,239 at a typical national wage. That's 13% less than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Green Bay, Wisconsin?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.