St. Croix County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in St. Croix County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in St. Croix County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 211 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.5 minutes.

St. Croix County holds about 1.6% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 2.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in St. Croix County would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,614 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)
St. Croix County	25.3 min	50.6 min	211 hrs/yr	$6,534	787
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 25.3 minutes to get to work in St. Croix County. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest 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 16.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in St. Croix County

• Car: 80.7%
• Worked at Home: 16.5%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 1.0%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in St. Croix County: 4.1 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in St. Croix County: 13.5 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in St. Croix County: 17.4 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in St. Croix County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in St. Croix 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.0%	4.4%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	92.4%	4.6%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	92.6%	4.3%	2.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.9%	4.8%	2.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	91.4%	5.3%	2.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	91.5%	5.1%	2.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	91.2%	5.5%	1.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	90.8%	6.2%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	90.9%	6.1%	1.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	91.4%	5.6%	1.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	91.3%	5.7%	1.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.2%	7.3%	1.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.5%	9.7%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.2%	12.1%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.9%	14.3%	1.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.7%	16.5%	1.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.0% in 2009 to 80.7% in 2024, down 12.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in St. Croix County: its share of workers rose from 4.4% in 2009 to 16.5% in 2024, up 12.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in St. Croix County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in St. Croix County?

The bars show when commuters in St. Croix 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 St. Croix County7.0% Wisconsin6.9%	7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM St. Croix County5.3% Wisconsin4.7%	5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM St. Croix County7.3% Wisconsin6.1%	7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM St. Croix County9.7% Wisconsin8.5%	9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM St. Croix County11.9% Wisconsin10.4%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM St. Croix County15.1% Wisconsin14.7%	15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM St. Croix County12.3% Wisconsin12.7%	12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM St. Croix County7.2% Wisconsin9.0%	7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM St. Croix County4.7% Wisconsin4.0%	4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM St. Croix County4.4% Wisconsin4.7%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM St. Croix County2.0% Wisconsin2.4%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM St. Croix County0.9% Wisconsin1.3%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM St. Croix County6.6% Wisconsin8.1%	6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM St. Croix County5.5% Wisconsin6.4%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in St. Croix County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are more common than in Wisconsin: 19.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Wisconsin's: 46.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.4%) 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 St. Croix 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 St. Croix 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 St. Croix 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	St. Croix County	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in St. Croix County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:15 AM). That goes against the trend across Wisconsin, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in St. Croix County now leave 21 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does St. Croix County's commute time compare?

Metric	St. Croix County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.3 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	16.5%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in St. Croix County is 25.3 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau