Racine County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Racine County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Racine County 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 2.5 minutes.

Racine County holds about 3.3% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 3.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Racine County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,195 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)
Racine County	21.2 min	42.5 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,488	1,455
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

Racine County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.2 minutes to get to work in Racine County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Wisconsin

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Racine County

Commute Mode Trends in Racine County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Racine 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	93.2%	2.3%	0.4%	2.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2010	93.3%	2.4%	0.4%	1.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2011	92.9%	2.3%	0.5%	2.1%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2012	92.9%	2.5%	0.7%	1.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2013	92.7%	2.8%	0.8%	1.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2014	92.1%	3.1%	0.8%	1.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2015	91.5%	3.3%	0.9%	2.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2016	92.0%	3.4%	0.8%	1.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2017	92.3%	3.4%	0.7%	1.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2018	91.8%	3.7%	1.0%	1.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	92.4%	3.5%	1.0%	1.4%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	91.2%	4.9%	1.6%	0.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	89.3%	6.5%	1.8%	0.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2022	88.0%	7.9%	1.7%	1.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	87.0%	8.9%	1.8%	1.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	86.0%	9.9%	1.8%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 93.3%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 86.0% in 2024, down 7.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Racine County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 7.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 1.0% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Racine County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Racine County?

The bars show when commuters in Racine 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		6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Racine County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are about as common as in Wisconsin: 18.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Wisconsin: 44.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Racine 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 Racine 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 Racine 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	Racine County	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 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	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Racine County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wisconsin, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Racine County now leave 19 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 Racine County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Racine County's commute time compare?

Metric	Racine County	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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.9%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Racine County is 21.2 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Racine County, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Racine County, WI is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 197,532 residents against a local median of 411,699. Racine County, WI's work from home, at 9.9%, runs 41% below the 16.8% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 8.8% on work from home, so Racine County, WI sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Racine County, WI has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Racine County, WI	197,532	21.2 min #3/6	9.9% #6/6	7:19 AM #1/6
Kenosha County, WI	168,436	21.0 min	10.7%	7:31 AM
Milwaukee County, WI	925,807	20.7 min	14.4%	7:42 AM
Lake County, IL	714,026	25.6 min	19.5%	7:37 AM
Ozaukee County, WI	92,977	21.5 min	17.5%	7:35 AM
Waukesha County, WI	411,699	21.4 min	16.8%	7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Racine County, Wisconsin.

Is commuting expensive in Racine County, Wisconsin?

Commuters here spend an estimated 177 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,488 at a typical national wage. That's 13% more than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Racine County, Wisconsin. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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).