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Commute Time Burden in Price County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Price County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 148 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Price County holds about 0.2% of Wisconsin's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Price County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,830 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)
Price County 17.7 min 35.4 min 148 hrs/yr $4,575 270
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
  1. Ashland County (12.8 min)
  2. Door County (13.6 min)
  3. Eau Claire County (15.3 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Wisconsin
  1. Oconto County (26.4 min)
  2. St. Croix County (25.3 min)
  3. Waushara County (23.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Price County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.7 minutes to get to work in Price County. That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Price County

  • Car: 87.0%
  • Worked at Home: 7.9%
  • Walked: 3.5%
  • Other: 1.2%
  • Motorcycle: 0.1%
  • Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Price County: 64.7 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Price County: 5.1 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Price County: 4.7 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Price County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Price 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 Other Motorcycle Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 87.9% 4.6% 5.2% 1.6% 0.3% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2010 89.2% 4.4% 4.0% 1.4% 0.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 88.8% 4.5% 4.5% 1.2% 0.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 88.2% 4.7% 5.0% 1.1% 0.6% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 87.9% 4.4% 5.4% 0.9% 0.8% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0%
2014 88.4% 4.7% 4.8% 0.6% 0.8% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 89.0% 4.7% 4.7% 0.6% 0.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 88.5% 5.6% 4.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0%
2017 88.6% 5.0% 4.9% 0.5% 0.4% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 89.1% 4.8% 5.2% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 89.4% 5.5% 4.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2020 88.7% 6.2% 4.3% 0.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2021 88.9% 5.4% 4.6% 0.7% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
2022 88.7% 6.4% 3.8% 0.8% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2023 88.5% 7.0% 3.4% 0.9% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 87.0% 7.9% 3.5% 1.2% 0.1% 0.1% 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 2019 at 89.4%. Overall it fell from 87.9% in 2009 to 87.0% in 2024, down 0.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Price County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 7.9% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 3.5% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Price County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Price County?

The bars show when commuters in Price 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
15.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Price County is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.9% across Wisconsin. Early starts are more common than in Wisconsin: 27.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Wisconsin: 42.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Price 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 Price 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 Price 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 Price County Wisconsin United States
2009 7:23 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:17 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:19 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:17 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:22 AM 7:31 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:24 AM 7:30 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:29 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:23 AM 7:29 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:18 AM 7:29 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:17 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:15 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:09 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:10 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:07 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:08 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:09 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Price County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wisconsin, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Price County now leave 29 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 Price County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Price County's commute time compare?

Metric Price County Wisconsin US Average
Avg. Commute Time 17.7 min 18.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 12:00 AM – 04:59 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 7.9% 13.1% 15.0%
Walked 3.5% 2.6% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.1% 3.2%

The average commute time in Price County is 17.7 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Price County, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Price County, WI is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 14,089 residents against a local median of 18,476. Price County, WI sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 13% below the local median at 7.9% against 9.2%. Price County, WI has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Price County, WI 14,089 17.7 min #4/6 7.9% #5/6 7:09 AM #3/6
Taylor County, WI 20,024 16.3 min 9.2% 7:04 AM
Iron County, WI 6,210 16.3 min 6.8% 7:15 AM
Lincoln County, WI 28,426 18.8 min 11.6% 7:00 AM
Rusk County, WI 14,178 19.0 min 9.2% 7:10 AM
Sawyer County, WI 18,476 16.6 min 12.7% 7:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Price County, Wisconsin.

Is living in Price County, Wisconsin good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 148 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,575 at a typical national wage. That's 6% less than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Price County, Wisconsin?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Price County, 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.

How common is public transit use in Price County, 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 do commute times compare across 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).