Lincoln County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lincoln County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lincoln County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 3% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Lincoln 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 Lincoln County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,881 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)
Lincoln County	18.2 min	36.4 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,702	407
Wisconsin	18.8 min	37.6 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,851	811
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 18.2 minutes to get to work in Lincoln County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 11.2% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 85.8%
• Worked at Home: 11.2%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Lincoln County: 5.0 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Lincoln County: 5.1 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

How does Lincoln County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lincoln County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 min	18.8 min	22.5 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 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.2%	11.6%	13.4%
Walked	1.8%	2.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.2%	3.5%

The average commute time in Lincoln County is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Wisconsin. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.7% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau