Oak Creek Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Oak Creek, 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 Oak Creek: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oak Creek spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 184 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.4 minutes.

Oak Creek holds about 0.6% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oak Creek would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,285 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)
Oak Creek	22.1 min	44.2 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,713	2,170
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.

Oak Creek Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.1 minutes to get to work in Oak Creek. That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oak Creek

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Oak Creek: 2702.1 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Oak Creek: 4.8 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Oak Creek, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oak Creek 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	94.8%	1.9%	0.3%	0.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2010	95.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	96.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.6%
2012	95.6%	1.5%	0.3%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2013	96.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2014	97.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%
2015	95.8%	2.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2016	95.0%	2.8%	0.1%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	94.8%	2.8%	0.1%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2018	93.7%	3.4%	0.1%	1.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2019	93.0%	4.6%	0.2%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2020	91.1%	6.7%	0.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	89.4%	8.3%	1.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	87.1%	10.7%	1.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	86.3%	11.4%	1.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	85.6%	11.8%	1.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 97.0%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 85.6% in 2024, down 9.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oak Creek: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 11.8% in 2024, up 9.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Oak Creek

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oak Creek?

The bars show when commuters in Oak Creek 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		5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Oak Creek is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are less common than in Wisconsin: 12.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wisconsin: 50.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.8%) 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 Oak Creek, 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 Oak Creek 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 Oak Creek 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	Oak Creek	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oak Creek were on the road by 7:29 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:25 AM). That goes against the trend across Wisconsin, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Oak Creek now leave 9 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 Oak Creek has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Oak Creek's commute time compare?

Metric	Oak Creek	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.1 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.8%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oak Creek is 22.1 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Oak Creek, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Oak Creek, WI compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Oak Creek, WI	36,158	22.1 min #1/3	11.8% #2/3	7:29 AM #2/3
Caledonia, WI	22,848	23.2 min	10.6%	7:23 AM
Franklin, WI	35,891	23.0 min	16.0%	7:36 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 184 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,713 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

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

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

Do people use public transit in Oak Creek, Wisconsin?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Wisconsin, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.