Superior Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Superior, Wisconsin: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Superior: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Superior spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 114 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Superior 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 Superior would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,419 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)
Superior	13.7 min	27.5 min	114 hrs/yr	$3,547	1,747
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.

Superior Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.7 minutes to get to work in Superior. That's 39% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Superior

Commute Mode Trends in Superior, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Superior 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	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.9%	2.8%	4.2%	0.7%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	90.8%	3.3%	3.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	89.7%	3.3%	4.0%	0.8%	1.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	88.8%	3.7%	3.9%	1.2%	1.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	88.2%	3.2%	3.9%	1.8%	2.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	88.6%	3.0%	4.7%	1.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	86.8%	3.5%	5.1%	2.2%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	88.1%	3.4%	4.2%	2.1%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	87.4%	3.5%	4.7%	2.4%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.8%	4.2%	5.1%	2.0%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	86.9%	4.3%	5.0%	1.8%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	87.5%	4.0%	5.5%	1.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.0%	5.1%	6.5%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	85.6%	6.4%	5.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	85.5%	7.1%	5.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	83.6%	9.0%	4.8%	1.5%	0.6%	0.4%	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 90.8%. Overall it fell from 89.9% in 2009 to 83.6% in 2024, down 6.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Superior: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 6.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

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

Walking peaked at 6.5% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 4.8%.

Commute Start Times in Superior

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Superior?

The bars show when commuters in Superior 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		5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Superior is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are less common than in Wisconsin: 12.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Wisconsin's: 47.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.1%) 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 Superior, 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 Superior 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 Superior 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	Superior	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:52 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:53 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:53 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:51 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:54 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:50 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:50 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:49 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:46 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:49 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:47 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Superior were on the road by 7:42 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:52 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wisconsin, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Superior now leave 4 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 Superior has moved 3 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Superior in the whole series.

How does Superior's commute time compare?

Metric	Superior	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.7 min	18.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	9.0%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	4.8%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Superior is 13.7 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

1.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 4.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Superior, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Superior, WI compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Superior, WI	25,358	13.7 min #1/2	9.0% #2/2	7:42 AM #1/2
Duluth, MN	77,579	15.9 min	12.7%	7:57 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Superior, Wisconsin.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 114 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,547 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Superior, 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.