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Commuting in Mequon, 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 Mequon: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mequon spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 181 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

Mequon holds about 0.4% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Mequon would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,244 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)
Mequon 21.7 min 43.4 min 181 hrs/yr $5,609 1,786
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.

Mequon Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.7 minutes to get to work in Mequon. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 26.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mequon

  • Car: 72.7%
  • Worked at Home: 26.0%
  • Walked: 0.8% unusually low
  • Bicycle: 0.4%
  • Other: 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Mequon: 438.4 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Mequon: 3.3 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.8% vs 2.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Mequon: 164822312447.2 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Mequon: 3502.6 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Mequon, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mequon 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 Bicycle Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 89.2% 6.3% 2.1% 0.2% 0.8% 1.0% 0.1% 0.3%
2010 89.1% 6.4% 2.6% 0.3% 0.9% 0.6% 0.1% 0.1%
2011 88.4% 7.1% 2.5% 0.2% 0.7% 0.9% 0.1% 0.1%
2012 87.4% 8.2% 2.1% 0.3% 1.0% 0.8% 0.1% 0.1%
2013 88.0% 7.7% 2.8% 0.1% 0.1% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0%
2014 89.2% 7.0% 2.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.7% 0.3% 0.3%
2015 89.2% 7.5% 1.7% 0.4% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3%
2016 88.8% 7.3% 2.1% 0.5% 0.2% 0.4% 0.2% 0.4%
2017 88.6% 6.7% 2.7% 0.5% 0.1% 0.6% 0.4% 0.5%
2018 88.6% 7.7% 1.8% 0.4% 0.2% 0.4% 0.5% 0.5%
2019 87.9% 7.9% 2.3% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3%
2020 82.8% 13.4% 2.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.3%
2021 79.7% 16.9% 2.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0%
2022 76.9% 20.7% 1.4% 0.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0%
2023 75.4% 22.6% 1.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 72.7% 26.0% 0.8% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 89.2% in 2009 to 72.7% in 2024, down 16.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mequon: its share of workers rose from 6.3% in 2009 to 26.0% in 2024, up 19.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 0.8% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Mequon

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mequon?

The bars show when commuters in Mequon 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
2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
0.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
12.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
15.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
9.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mequon is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.0% across Wisconsin. Early starts are less common than in Wisconsin: 6.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wisconsin: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.0%) 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 Mequon, 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 Mequon 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 Mequon 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 Mequon Wisconsin United States
2009 7:42 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:42 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:41 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:40 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:39 AM 7:31 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:41 AM 7:30 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:41 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:37 AM 7:29 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:38 AM 7:29 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:39 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:37 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:40 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:43 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:47 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:50 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:59 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mequon were on the road by 7:59 AM, 16 minutes later than in 2009 (7:42 AM). That goes against the trend across Wisconsin, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Mequon now leave 21 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Mequon has moved 22 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Mequon in the whole series.

How does Mequon's commute time compare?

Metric Mequon Wisconsin US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.7 min 18.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 26.0% 13.1% 15.0%
Walked 0.8% 2.6% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.1% 3.2%

The average commute time in Mequon is 21.7 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Mequon, Wisconsin.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 181 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,609 at a typical national wage. That's 16% more than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

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

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

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Mequon, Wisconsin?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Wisconsin, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How much money can remote workers save in Mequon, Wisconsin?

About 26.0% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Mequon would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,244 at the same national wage assumption used above.