Vernon County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Vernon 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 Vernon County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Vernon 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.

Vernon 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 Vernon County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,272 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)
Vernon County	22.0 min	44.0 min	183 hrs/yr	$5,680	360
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

Ashland County (12.8 min)
Door County (13.6 min)
Eau Claire County (15.3 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Wisconsin

Oconto County (26.4 min)
St. Croix County (25.3 min)
Waushara County (23.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Vernon County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.0 minutes to get to work in Vernon County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% 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 12.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Vernon County

Biking is unusually rare in Vernon County: 8.2 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Vernon County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Vernon 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	84.7%	8.4%	4.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.9%
2010	84.5%	8.6%	4.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	1.1%
2011	84.5%	8.8%	4.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.9%
2012	84.5%	8.0%	4.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	1.0%
2013	84.3%	8.0%	5.4%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	85.3%	7.3%	4.9%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2015	86.1%	7.1%	4.0%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2016	86.1%	7.2%	3.7%	1.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%
2017	85.6%	7.5%	3.8%	1.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.6%
2018	85.7%	7.4%	3.8%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.6%
2019	85.7%	7.6%	3.7%	1.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%
2020	84.8%	8.1%	3.4%	2.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.5%
2021	84.2%	9.2%	3.4%	2.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2022	82.9%	10.4%	3.7%	2.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	82.6%	11.2%	3.4%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	81.4%	12.7%	3.7%	1.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 86.1%. Overall it fell from 84.7% in 2009 to 81.4% in 2024, down 3.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Vernon County: its share of workers rose from 8.4% in 2009 to 12.7% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Public transit overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Vernon County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Vernon County?

The bars show when commuters in Vernon 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		9.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Vernon County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Wisconsin. Early starts are more common than in Wisconsin: 22.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wisconsin: 49.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Vernon 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 Vernon 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 Vernon 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	Vernon County	Wisconsin	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Vernon County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). Wisconsin followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Vernon County now leave 19 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 Vernon County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Vernon County's commute time compare?

Metric	Vernon County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.0 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	12.7%	13.1%	15.0%
Walked	3.7%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Vernon County is 22.0 minutes, longer than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Wisconsin. 3.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Vernon County, WI Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Vernon County, WI is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 31,046 residents against a local median of 17,205. The measure that sets Vernon County, WI apart most is work from home: 12.7%, 43% above the local median of 8.9%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 22.0 min against a local median of 17.2 min, 28% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 28% above the local median it puts Vernon County, WI at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 4.7% on work from home, so Vernon County, WI sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Vernon County, WI has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Vernon County, WI	31,046	22.0 min #6/6	12.7% #1/6	7:18 AM #4/6
Crawford County, WI	16,042	16.6 min	6.9%	7:22 AM
Monroe County, WI	46,191	17.2 min	9.0%	7:08 AM
La Crosse County, WI	120,486	16.4 min	11.6%	7:30 AM
Richland County, WI	17,205	18.2 min	8.9%	7:17 AM
Allamakee County, IA	14,091	18.3 min	7.1%	7:14 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Vernon County, Wisconsin.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Vernon County, Wisconsin?

Commuters here spend an estimated 183 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,680 at a typical national wage. That's 17% more than the typical Wisconsin commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Vernon County, Wisconsin?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Vernon 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 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).