Average for workers who did not work from home.
COUNTY · OR · GEOID 410372024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Lake County, Oregon
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 13.8 min one way; 8.4% worked from home, 74.8% drove alone, and 3.9% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip13.8 min±3.3 min MOE
Worked from home8.4%±3.7 pp MOE
Drove alone74.8%±6.2 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.9%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Lake County's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -0.8 minutes and the work-from-home share changed -5.7 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Lake County residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 74.8%; 0.0% used public transit and 8.4% worked from home.
Each share uses 3,178 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Lake County compares with similar-size countys
This county's mean commute is at the 4th percentile among covered under 25k countys; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 96% of covered countys in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 62% of covered countys in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 80% of covered countys in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 87% of covered countys in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Lake County's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 3,178 workers age 16+, including 2,912 workers with reported travel time and 266 home workers.
Population estimate8,267± — MOE
Workers age 16+3,178± 259 MOE
Workers with travel time2,912± 255 MOE
Estimated home workers266± 119 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Oregon reports →Comparable Oregon commute records for Lake County
These 7 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.