Vilas County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Vilas County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Vilas County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 134 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting.

That is 14% less time on the road than the Wisconsin average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Vilas County 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 Vilas County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,667 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)
Vilas County	16.1 min	32.3 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,169	437
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

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On average, it takes 16.1 minutes to get to work in Vilas County. That's 28% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster 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 .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 10.8% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 83.7%
• Worked at Home: 10.8%
• Walked: 3.8%
• Other: 0.5%
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is unusually common in Vilas County: 4.2 times more than the Wisconsin average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Vilas County: 5.6 times less than the Wisconsin average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

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

How does Vilas County's commute time compare?

Metric	Vilas County	Wisconsin	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.1 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.8%	11.6%	13.4%
Walked	3.8%	2.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.2%	3.5%

The average commute time in Vilas County is 16.1 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Wisconsin.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Wisconsin. 3.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.7% in Wisconsin.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau