Average for workers who did not work from home.
COUNTY · WI · GEOID 550992024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Price County, Wisconsin
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 24.1 min one way; 7.9% worked from home, 77.8% drove alone, and 10.3% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip24.1 min±1.5 min MOE
Worked from home7.9%±1.2 pp MOE
Drove alone77.8%±2.7 pp MOE
60+ minute trip10.3%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 Price County's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +3.4 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +2.6 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 Price County residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 77.8%; 0.0% used public transit and 7.9% worked from home.
Each share uses 5,938 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Price County compares with similar-size countys
This county's mean commute is at the 49th 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 51% of covered countys in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 56% of covered countys in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 59% of covered countys in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is higher than about 67% of covered countys in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Price County's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 5,938 workers age 16+, including 5,466 workers with reported travel time and 472 home workers.
Population estimate14,092± — MOE
Workers age 16+5,938± 175 MOE
Workers with travel time5,466± 187 MOE
Estimated home workers472± 75 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 Wisconsin reports →Comparable Wisconsin commute records for Price County
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.