Ozaukee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Ozaukee County, 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 Ozaukee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ozaukee County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 179 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Ozaukee County holds about 1.6% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 1.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ozaukee County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,225 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)
Ozaukee County	21.5 min	43.1 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,562	1,531
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Wisconsin

Ashland County (12.8 min)
Door County (13.6 min)
Eau Claire County (15.3 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Wisconsin

Oconto County (26.4 min)
St. Croix County (25.3 min)
Waushara County (23.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Ozaukee County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.5 minutes to get to work in Ozaukee County. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 76% 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 17.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ozaukee County

Public transit is unusually rare in Ozaukee County: 9.5 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Ozaukee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ozaukee 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.

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	91.3%	4.6%	2.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%
2010	91.2%	4.8%	2.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	90.9%	5.1%	2.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2012	90.3%	5.7%	2.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2013	90.8%	5.4%	2.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	91.1%	5.5%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%
2015	90.7%	5.7%	1.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%
2016	90.8%	5.4%	2.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%
2017	90.6%	5.2%	2.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%
2018	91.0%	5.5%	1.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%
2019	91.2%	5.3%	1.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	88.9%	8.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2021	86.0%	11.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	84.0%	13.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	81.8%	15.4%	1.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	80.3%	17.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 91.3% in 2009 to 80.3% in 2024, down 11.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ozaukee County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 17.5% in 2024, up 12.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 1.1% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Ozaukee County

Hitting SnoozeThe 3rd-biggest shift to later mornings among Wisconsin's 72 counties: the typical start is 5 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ozaukee County?

The bars show when commuters in Ozaukee 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ozaukee County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are less common than in Wisconsin: 13.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wisconsin: 50.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 Ozaukee 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 Ozaukee 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 Ozaukee 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Ozaukee County	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 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	7:32 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ozaukee County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:31 AM). That goes against the trend across Wisconsin, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Ozaukee County now leave 3 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 Ozaukee County has moved 9 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Ozaukee County in the whole series.

How does Ozaukee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Ozaukee County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.5 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	17.5%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ozaukee County is 21.5 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Ozaukee County, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Ozaukee County, WI is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 92,977 residents against a local median of 137,879. Where Ozaukee County, WI breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 60% above the local median of 10.9% at 17.5%.

The counties themselves spread 6.6% on work from home, so Ozaukee County, WI sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Ozaukee County, WI has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Ozaukee County, WI	92,977	21.5 min #5/6	17.5% #1/6	7:35 AM #5/6
Milwaukee County, WI	925,807	20.7 min	14.4%	7:42 AM
Sheboygan County, WI	117,991	15.8 min	10.9%	7:30 AM
Racine County, WI	197,532	21.2 min	9.9%	7:19 AM
Washington County, WI	137,879	23.5 min	13.9%	7:18 AM
Manitowoc County, WI	81,406	16.4 min	7.8%	7:08 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.

Is commuting expensive in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin?

Commuters here spend an estimated 179 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,562 at a typical national wage. That's 15% more than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% 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 Ozaukee County, Wisconsin?

About 17.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Ozaukee County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,225 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Wisconsin?

Among counties in Wisconsin, the shortest average commutes are in Ashland County (12.8 min), Door County (13.6 min), Eau Claire County (15.3 min). The longest are in Oconto County (26.4 min), St. Croix County (25.3 min), Waushara County (23.9 min).