Kenosha Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Kenosha, 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 Kenosha: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kenosha spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Kenosha holds about 1.5% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kenosha would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,916 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)
Kenosha	18.5 min	37.1 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,789	2,298
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.

Kenosha Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Kenosha. That's 17% 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 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kenosha

Commute Mode Trends in Kenosha, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kenosha 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	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.3%	2.2%	2.1%	0.8%	1.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.4%
2010	92.6%	2.3%	2.1%	0.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2011	92.1%	2.2%	2.3%	0.9%	1.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2012	93.3%	2.0%	1.7%	0.8%	1.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2013	93.6%	1.7%	1.7%	0.7%	1.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2014	93.1%	1.9%	1.9%	0.7%	1.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%
2015	93.0%	2.1%	1.9%	0.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	93.2%	2.2%	1.8%	0.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2017	93.1%	2.2%	1.6%	0.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	93.1%	2.3%	1.6%	0.9%	1.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2019	93.1%	2.4%	1.7%	0.7%	1.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	92.5%	3.5%	1.5%	0.4%	1.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	90.5%	5.1%	1.4%	0.9%	1.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	89.4%	6.2%	1.5%	0.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%
2023	88.0%	7.9%	1.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	86.9%	9.0%	1.4%	1.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 86.9% in 2024, down 5.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kenosha: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 6.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 0.9% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Kenosha

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kenosha?

The bars show when commuters in Kenosha 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		7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kenosha is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are about as common as in Wisconsin: 17.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Wisconsin: 41.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.9%) 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 Kenosha, 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 Kenosha 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 Kenosha 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	Kenosha	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kenosha were on the road by 7:37 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:34 AM). That goes against the trend across Wisconsin, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Kenosha now leave 1 minute earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Kenosha in the whole series.

How does Kenosha's commute time compare?

Metric	Kenosha	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 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	9.0%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kenosha is about the same as in Wisconsin.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Kenosha, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Kenosha, WI	86,039	18.5 min #1/2	9.0% #2/2	7:37 AM #1/2
Pleasant Prairie, WI	24,424	21.7 min	13.3%	7:50 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 154 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,789 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Kenosha, 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.