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 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting.

That is 25% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.8 minutes.

St. Croix County holds about 1.6% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 2.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in St. Croix County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,433 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	23.5 min	47.1 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,083	787
Wisconsin	18.8 min	37.6 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,851	811
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 23.5 minutes to get to work in St. Croix County. That's 5% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Wisconsin

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 14.3% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 82.9%
• Worked at Home: 14.3%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 1.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is unusually low in St. Croix County: 3.5 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in St. Croix County: 5.4 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in St. Croix County, versus 0.2% in Wisconsin.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in St. Croix County: 3.0 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.2% vs 0.5%).

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

Metric	St. Croix County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.5 min	18.8 min	22.5 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	14.3%	11.6%	13.4%
Walked	1.4%	2.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.2%	3.5%

The average commute time in St. Croix County is 23.5 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Wisconsin. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.7% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau