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Trempealeau County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Trempealeau County, 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 Trempealeau County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Trempealeau County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% more time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

Trempealeau County holds about 0.5% of Wisconsin's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Trempealeau County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,268 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)
Trempealeau County 21.9 min 43.9 min 183 hrs/yr $5,669 443
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
  1. Ashland County (12.8 min)
  2. Door County (13.6 min)
  3. Eau Claire County (15.3 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Wisconsin
  1. Oconto County (26.4 min)
  2. St. Croix County (25.3 min)
  3. Waushara County (23.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Trempealeau County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.9 minutes to get to work in Trempealeau County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% of 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 10.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Trempealeau County

  • Car: 87.1%
  • Worked at Home: 10.2%
  • Walked: 1.6%
  • Other: 0.8%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Taxi: < 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Trempealeau County: 150.5 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.0% vs 1.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Trempealeau County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Trempealeau 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 Walked Other Bicycle Taxi Public Transportation Motorcycle
2009 89.3% 5.4% 3.8% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.4% 0.4%
2010 89.0% 5.1% 4.6% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.4%
2011 88.6% 4.8% 5.2% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.3% 0.4%
2012 89.7% 4.1% 4.7% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.3% 0.4%
2013 89.2% 4.6% 4.6% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.4%
2014 89.6% 4.4% 4.4% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.4%
2015 89.7% 4.8% 3.9% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.4%
2016 90.0% 5.0% 3.3% 1.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3%
2017 89.2% 5.8% 3.4% 1.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3%
2018 89.3% 5.9% 3.2% 1.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2%
2019 88.5% 6.4% 3.5% 1.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
2020 87.3% 8.0% 3.3% 1.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
2021 86.7% 9.1% 3.1% 0.7% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
2022 87.2% 9.1% 2.6% 0.8% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2023 86.4% 9.7% 2.9% 0.8% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 87.1% 10.2% 1.6% 0.8% 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. Its share was highest in 2016 at 90.0% and lowest in 2023 at 86.4%. Overall it fell from 89.3% in 2009 to 87.1% in 2024, down 2.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Trempealeau County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 10.2% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 1.6% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Trempealeau County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Trempealeau County?

The bars show when commuters in Trempealeau 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
12.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
4.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Trempealeau County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are more common than in Wisconsin: 26.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Wisconsin's: 46.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.0%) 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 Trempealeau 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 Trempealeau 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 Trempealeau 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 Trempealeau County Wisconsin United States
2009 7:14 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:15 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:15 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:12 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:12 AM 7:31 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:11 AM 7:30 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:14 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:13 AM 7:29 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:13 AM 7:29 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:13 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:13 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:09 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:09 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:09 AM 7:27 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:09 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:07 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Trempealeau County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wisconsin, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Trempealeau County now leave 31 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 Trempealeau County has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Trempealeau County in the whole series.

How does Trempealeau County's commute time compare?

Metric Trempealeau County Wisconsin US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.9 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 10.2% 13.1% 15.0%
Walked 1.6% 2.6% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.1% 3.2%

The average commute time in Trempealeau County is 21.9 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Trempealeau County, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Trempealeau County, WI is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 28,321 residents against a local median of 49,782. Trempealeau County, WI's one-way commute, at 21.9 min, runs 34% above the 16.4 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 9.3 min on one-way commute, so Trempealeau County, WI sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Trempealeau County, WI has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Trempealeau County, WI 28,321 21.9 min #5/6 10.2% #3/6 7:07 AM #1/6
Buffalo County, WI 13,393 22.6 min 10.0% 7:08 AM
Eau Claire County, WI 107,100 15.3 min 12.7% 7:43 AM
La Crosse County, WI 120,486 16.4 min 11.6% 7:30 AM
Winona County, MN 49,782 13.2 min 10.0% 7:24 AM
Jackson County, WI 20,977 21.3 min 7.5% 7:09 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin?

Commuters here spend an estimated 183 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,669 at a typical national wage. That's 17% more than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin?

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

How common is public transit use in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Wisconsin, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).