Green County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Green County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Green County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Green County holds about 0.6% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Green County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,101 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 County	20.3 min	40.7 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,253	716
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

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On average, it takes 20.3 minutes to get to work in Green County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Green County

• Car: 85.1%
• Worked at Home: 11.9%
• Walked: 2.1%
• Other: 0.5%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Green County: 23.2 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 1.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Green County: 22.7 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Green County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Green 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.

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• Worked at Home
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle
2009	88.1%	6.5%	3.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%
2010	88.0%	6.2%	3.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%
2011	87.9%	6.2%	3.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.8%
2012	87.8%	6.1%	3.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.8%
2013	88.4%	5.9%	3.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.6%
2014	88.8%	6.1%	3.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%
2015	89.2%	5.7%	3.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	89.5%	5.5%	3.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	89.8%	5.7%	3.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%
2018	89.4%	5.8%	3.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2019	89.2%	5.6%	4.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2020	88.5%	7.3%	3.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	87.6%	8.7%	2.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	86.6%	9.9%	2.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.9%	10.2%	2.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.1%	11.9%	2.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2017 at 89.8%. Overall it fell from 88.1% in 2009 to 85.1% in 2024, down 3.0 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Green County: its share of workers rose from 6.5% in 2009 to 11.9% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.6% to 2.1% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Green County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Green County?

The bars show when commuters in Green 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	12:00-4:59 AM Green County8.1% Wisconsin6.9%	8.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Green County5.9% Wisconsin4.7%	5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Green County6.3% Wisconsin6.1%	6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Green County9.9% Wisconsin8.5%	9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Green County12.2% Wisconsin10.4%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Green County15.2% Wisconsin14.7%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Green County14.6% Wisconsin12.7%	14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Green County8.0% Wisconsin9.0%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Green County2.6% Wisconsin4.0%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Green County3.9% Wisconsin4.7%	3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Green County2.3% Wisconsin2.4%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Green County0.6% Wisconsin1.3%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Green County5.2% Wisconsin8.1%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Green County5.2% Wisconsin6.4%	5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Green County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are more common than in Wisconsin: 20.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wisconsin: 50.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.2%) 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 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 Green 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 Green 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Green County	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Green County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:16 AM). Wisconsin followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Green County now leave 23 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Green County's commute time compare?

Metric	Green County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.9%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Green County is 20.3 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 2.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau