New Berlin Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in New Berlin: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in New Berlin spend about 42 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 2.4 minutes.

New Berlin holds about 0.7% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in New Berlin would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,189 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)
New Berlin	21.2 min	42.4 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,474	2,738
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.

New Berlin Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.2 minutes to get to work in New Berlin. That's 5% 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 15.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in New Berlin

• Car: 83.8%
• Worked at Home: 15.4%
• Other: 0.5%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in New Berlin: 5710293.0 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in New Berlin: 12.7 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.2% vs 2.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in New Berlin: 78.5 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in New Berlin: 4424.3 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in New Berlin: 7.4 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in New Berlin: just 0.3%, 11.5 times below the Wisconsin average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in New Berlin, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in New Berlin 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.0%	3.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	93.4%	4.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	94.2%	3.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	94.0%	3.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	94.2%	3.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	94.3%	3.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	95.0%	3.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	94.2%	3.8%	0.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	94.2%	4.0%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	93.6%	4.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	93.8%	4.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	90.5%	7.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	88.6%	9.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	86.7%	12.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	85.3%	13.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.8%	15.4%	0.5%	0.2%	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. Its share peaked in 2015 at 95.0%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 83.8% in 2024, down 10.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in New Berlin: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 15.4% in 2024, up 11.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in New Berlin

What Time Do People Leave for Work in New Berlin?

The bars show when commuters in New Berlin 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 New Berlin3.2% Wisconsin6.9%	3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM New Berlin4.3% Wisconsin4.7%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM New Berlin3.8% Wisconsin6.1%	3.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM New Berlin8.9% Wisconsin8.5%	8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM New Berlin9.7% Wisconsin10.4%	9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM New Berlin16.5% Wisconsin14.7%	16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM New Berlin15.6% Wisconsin12.7%	15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM New Berlin13.8% Wisconsin9.0%	13.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM New Berlin4.9% Wisconsin4.0%	4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM New Berlin4.7% Wisconsin4.7%	4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM New Berlin2.0% Wisconsin2.4%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM New Berlin1.2% Wisconsin1.3%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM New Berlin6.6% Wisconsin8.1%	6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM New Berlin4.9% Wisconsin6.4%	4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in New Berlin is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are less common than in Wisconsin: 11.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wisconsin: 55.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.4%) 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 New Berlin, 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 New Berlin 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 New Berlin 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.

• New Berlin
• Wisconsin
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	New Berlin	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in New Berlin were on the road by 7:37 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). That goes against the trend across Wisconsin, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in New Berlin now leave 1 minute 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 New Berlin has moved 9 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for New Berlin in the whole series.

How does New Berlin's commute time compare?

Metric	New Berlin	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.2 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	15.4%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in New Berlin is 21.2 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau