Greenfield Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Greenfield, 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 Greenfield: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Greenfield spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 178 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Greenfield 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 Greenfield would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,209 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)
Greenfield	21.4 min	42.8 min	178 hrs/yr	$5,523	2,781
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.

Greenfield Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.4 minutes to get to work in Greenfield. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Greenfield

Walking is unusually rare in Greenfield: 3.8 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.7% vs 2.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Greenfield: 2544.1 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Greenfield: 18.1 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Greenfield: just 0.7%, 4.4 times below the Wisconsin average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Greenfield, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Greenfield 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.4%	2.1%	1.5%	1.6%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	2.4%	1.4%	1.3%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	93.2%	2.3%	1.9%	0.9%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	94.2%	1.9%	1.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	93.7%	2.0%	1.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	94.2%	1.9%	1.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	93.9%	1.9%	1.9%	1.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	93.8%	2.4%	1.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	93.1%	2.8%	2.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	93.4%	3.1%	2.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2019	93.3%	3.4%	1.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	91.0%	6.0%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	89.7%	8.0%	1.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	87.6%	10.6%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	85.0%	13.1%	0.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.4%	14.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	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 2012 at 94.2%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 83.4% in 2024, down 10.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Greenfield: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 14.4% in 2024, up 12.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Greenfield

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Greenfield?

The bars show when commuters in Greenfield 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		4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Greenfield is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are about as common as in Wisconsin: 17.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Wisconsin's: 45.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.0%) 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 Greenfield, 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 Greenfield 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 Greenfield 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	Greenfield	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Greenfield were on the road by 7:26 AM, 6 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 Greenfield 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 Greenfield has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Greenfield in the whole series.

How does Greenfield's commute time compare?

Metric	Greenfield	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.4 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.4%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Greenfield is 21.4 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Greenfield, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Greenfield, WI compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Greenfield, WI	37,199	21.4 min #2/3	14.4% #2/3	7:26 AM #1/3
West Allis, WI	59,584	19.0 min	10.1%	7:29 AM
Franklin, WI	35,891	23.0 min	16.0%	7:36 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Greenfield, Wisconsin.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Greenfield, Wisconsin?

Commuters here spend an estimated 178 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,523 at a typical national wage. That's 14% more than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Greenfield, Wisconsin?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Greenfield, Wisconsin. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.