Juneau County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Juneau County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Juneau County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Juneau County holds about 0.5% of Wisconsin's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Juneau County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,199 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)
Juneau County	21.3 min	42.6 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,497	447
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 21.3 minutes to get to work in Juneau County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% of counties in Wisconsin

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 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Juneau County

• Car: 87.9%
• Worked at Home: 6.9%
• Walked: 3.0%
• Other: 1.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Juneau County: 5.6 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Juneau County, versus 0.2% in Wisconsin.

Biking is unusually rare in Juneau County: 3.5 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Juneau County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Juneau 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	89.0%	4.9%	4.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	89.1%	5.0%	3.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	91.0%	4.1%	3.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	90.5%	3.9%	4.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	91.0%	3.8%	3.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	91.7%	3.7%	3.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2015	91.2%	3.9%	2.8%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	89.6%	5.0%	3.3%	0.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	90.1%	5.2%	2.7%	0.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2018	90.3%	5.5%	2.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	88.7%	6.4%	3.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	88.5%	6.4%	3.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	89.0%	5.4%	3.7%	1.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	88.0%	6.3%	3.7%	1.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	88.7%	5.8%	3.3%	1.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	6.9%	3.0%	1.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 91.7%. Overall it fell from 89.0% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Juneau County: its share of workers rose from 4.9% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.0% to 3.0% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Juneau County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Juneau County?

The bars show when commuters in Juneau 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 Juneau County9.8% Wisconsin6.9%	9.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Juneau County6.0% Wisconsin4.7%	6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Juneau County8.4% Wisconsin6.1%	8.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Juneau County10.8% Wisconsin8.5%	10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Juneau County9.4% Wisconsin10.4%	9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Juneau County16.1% Wisconsin14.7%	16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Juneau County11.8% Wisconsin12.7%	11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Juneau County5.6% Wisconsin9.0%	5.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Juneau County2.3% Wisconsin4.0%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Juneau County2.4% Wisconsin4.7%	2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Juneau County2.1% Wisconsin2.4%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Juneau County0.5% Wisconsin1.3%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Juneau County9.2% Wisconsin8.1%	9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Juneau County5.6% Wisconsin6.4%	5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Juneau County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are more common than in Wisconsin: 24.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Wisconsin: 42.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.9%) 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 Juneau 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 Juneau 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 Juneau 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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• Wisconsin
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Juneau County	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Juneau County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wisconsin, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Juneau County now leave 27 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 Juneau County has moved 2 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Juneau County in the whole series.

How does Juneau County's commute time compare?

Metric	Juneau County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.3 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	6.9%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Juneau County is 21.3 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau