Menomonee Falls Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Menomonee Falls: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Menomonee Falls spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 172 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Menomonee Falls holds about 0.7% of Wisconsin's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Menomonee Falls would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,138 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)
Menomonee Falls	20.7 min	41.4 min	172 hrs/yr	$5,346	2,325
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.

Menomonee Falls Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.7 minutes to get to work in Menomonee Falls. That's 8% 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 17.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Menomonee Falls

• Car: 81.1%
• Worked at Home: 17.4%
• Other: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.6% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Menomonee Falls: 4.2 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.6% vs 2.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Menomonee Falls: 11.7 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Menomonee Falls: 75.0 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Menomonee Falls: 3.2 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Menomonee Falls: just 0.8%, 4.0 times below the Wisconsin average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Menomonee Falls, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Menomonee Falls 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.7%	2.5%	0.3%	1.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	95.6%	2.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	95.3%	2.5%	0.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	94.8%	2.9%	0.1%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	94.1%	3.2%	0.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	94.7%	3.1%	0.2%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	94.3%	3.4%	0.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	94.2%	3.8%	0.2%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	93.4%	4.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	93.5%	4.6%	0.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	93.2%	4.9%	0.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	89.9%	8.1%	0.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	85.9%	12.4%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	84.5%	14.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	82.8%	15.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	81.1%	17.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	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 2010 at 95.6%. Overall it fell from 94.7% in 2009 to 81.1% in 2024, down 13.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Menomonee Falls: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 17.4% in 2024, up 14.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Menomonee Falls

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Menomonee Falls?

The bars show when commuters in Menomonee Falls 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 Menomonee Falls4.5% Wisconsin6.9%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Menomonee Falls2.4% Wisconsin4.7%	2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Menomonee Falls4.0% Wisconsin6.1%	4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Menomonee Falls9.2% Wisconsin8.5%	9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Menomonee Falls10.5% Wisconsin10.4%	10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Menomonee Falls20.7% Wisconsin14.7%	20.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Menomonee Falls13.5% Wisconsin12.7%	13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Menomonee Falls11.7% Wisconsin9.0%	11.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Menomonee Falls4.7% Wisconsin4.0%	4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Menomonee Falls5.4% Wisconsin4.7%	5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Menomonee Falls0.9% Wisconsin2.4%	0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Menomonee Falls2.0% Wisconsin1.3%	2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Menomonee Falls5.6% Wisconsin8.1%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Menomonee Falls4.9% Wisconsin6.4%	4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Menomonee Falls is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are less common than in Wisconsin: 10.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wisconsin: 56.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.8%) 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 Menomonee Falls, 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 Menomonee Falls 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 Menomonee Falls 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	Menomonee Falls	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Menomonee Falls were on the road by 7:28 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:27 AM). That goes against the trend across Wisconsin, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Menomonee Falls now leave 10 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 Menomonee Falls has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Menomonee Falls's commute time compare?

Metric	Menomonee Falls	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.7 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	17.4%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Menomonee Falls is 20.7 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau