Stevens Point Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Stevens Point: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stevens Point spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 105 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.1 minutes.

Stevens Point holds about 0.4% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Stevens Point would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,303 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)
Stevens Point	12.6 min	25.2 min	105 hrs/yr	$3,258	2,432
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.

Stevens Point Commute Map

On average, it takes 12.6 minutes to get to work in Stevens Point. That's 44% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stevens Point

• Car: 77.2%
• Worked at Home: 12.0%
• Walked: 8.7% unusually high
• Bicycle: 1.5% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Other: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Stevens Point: 77.1 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Stevens Point: 3.3 times more than the Wisconsin average (8.7% vs 2.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Stevens Point: 3.0 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.4% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Stevens Point: 792019.5 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually common in Stevens Point: 3.1 times more than the Wisconsin average (1.5% vs 0.5%).

Stevens Point stands out for active commuting: 10.2% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.3 times the Wisconsin average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Stevens Point, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Stevens Point 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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• Worked at Home
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	77.0%	2.5%	13.4%	5.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	77.7%	3.0%	11.9%	5.0%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	76.4%	3.4%	13.3%	4.1%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%
2012	77.2%	2.9%	12.6%	4.5%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.7%
2013	78.4%	2.9%	12.9%	3.9%	0.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.5%
2014	79.2%	2.7%	12.8%	3.6%	0.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	77.9%	3.4%	14.5%	3.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	77.5%	3.4%	14.3%	3.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	77.3%	3.5%	14.9%	2.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	78.3%	3.8%	13.2%	3.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	77.5%	4.2%	13.2%	3.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	79.1%	6.3%	10.4%	2.4%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	78.7%	8.3%	9.9%	1.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	79.1%	10.1%	7.7%	2.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	78.2%	10.7%	8.2%	1.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	77.2%	12.0%	8.7%	1.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2014 at 79.2% and lowest in 2011 at 76.4%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 77.0% in 2009 and 77.2% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Stevens Point: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 12.0% in 2024, up 9.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 13.4% to 8.7% of workers (down 4.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Stevens Point

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stevens Point?

The bars show when commuters in Stevens Point 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 Stevens Point4.1% Wisconsin6.9%	4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Stevens Point3.2% Wisconsin4.7%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Stevens Point5.3% Wisconsin6.1%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Stevens Point6.7% Wisconsin8.5%	6.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Stevens Point9.0% Wisconsin10.4%	9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Stevens Point12.5% Wisconsin14.7%	12.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Stevens Point12.6% Wisconsin12.7%	12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Stevens Point8.1% Wisconsin9.0%	8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Stevens Point6.2% Wisconsin4.0%	6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Stevens Point4.9% Wisconsin4.7%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Stevens Point2.2% Wisconsin2.4%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Stevens Point3.2% Wisconsin1.3%	3.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Stevens Point14.3% Wisconsin8.1%	14.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Stevens Point7.5% Wisconsin6.4%	7.5%

Stevens Point Wisconsin Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Stevens Point is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.1% across Wisconsin. Early starts are less common than in Wisconsin: 12.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Wisconsin: 42.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (32.2%) 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 Stevens Point, 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 Stevens Point 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 Stevens Point 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	Stevens Point	Wisconsin	United States
2009	8:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:11 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:08 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:58 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:57 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:54 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:52 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:51 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:52 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stevens Point were on the road by 7:52 AM, 20 minutes earlier than in 2009 (8:12 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wisconsin, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Stevens Point now leave 14 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Stevens Point has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Stevens Point's commute time compare?

Metric	Stevens Point	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.6 min	18.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	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	12.0%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	8.7%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Stevens Point is 12.6 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 8.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau