Oneida County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Oneida County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oneida County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 133 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Oneida County holds about 0.6% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oneida County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,649 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)
Oneida County	16.0 min	31.9 min	133 hrs/yr	$4,122	483
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.

Commute Time Map: Wisconsin Counties

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On average, it takes 16.0 minutes to get to work in Oneida County. That's 29% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 92% of counties in Wisconsin

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 10.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oneida County

• Car: 85.1%
• Worked at Home: 10.5%
• Walked: 3.0%
• Other: 0.7%
• Taxi: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Oneida County: 23.4 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 1.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Oneida County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oneida County 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation
2009	92.3%	4.4%	2.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2010	92.2%	4.2%	2.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2011	91.9%	3.8%	2.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%
2012	91.6%	4.1%	2.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	91.6%	4.6%	2.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2014	90.7%	5.3%	2.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%
2015	90.7%	5.3%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%
2016	91.5%	5.0%	2.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%
2017	91.3%	4.8%	2.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%
2018	92.1%	4.5%	2.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	92.2%	4.0%	2.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2020	90.6%	5.5%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2021	88.4%	7.0%	2.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2022	88.4%	8.0%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	87.3%	8.5%	2.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2024	85.1%	10.5%	3.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 85.1% in 2024, down 7.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oneida County: its share of workers rose from 4.4% in 2009 to 10.5% in 2024, up 6.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Oneida County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oneida County?

The bars show when commuters in Oneida County 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 Oneida County6.4% Wisconsin6.9%	6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Oneida County4.2% Wisconsin4.7%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Oneida County4.8% Wisconsin6.1%	4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Oneida County8.1% Wisconsin8.5%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Oneida County9.6% Wisconsin10.4%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Oneida County16.2% Wisconsin14.7%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Oneida County15.8% Wisconsin12.7%	15.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Oneida County8.9% Wisconsin9.0%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Oneida County4.2% Wisconsin4.0%	4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Oneida County6.1% Wisconsin4.7%	6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Oneida County3.2% Wisconsin2.4%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Oneida County2.4% Wisconsin1.3%	2.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Oneida County5.3% Wisconsin8.1%	5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Oneida County4.9% Wisconsin6.4%	4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Oneida County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are less common than in Wisconsin: 15.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wisconsin: 50.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Oneida County, 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 Oneida County 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 Oneida County 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.

• Oneida County
• Wisconsin
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Oneida County	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:36 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oneida County were on the road by 7:31 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Wisconsin, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Oneida County now leave 6 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Oneida County's commute time compare?

Metric	Oneida County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.0 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	10.5%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oneida County is 16.0 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau