Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · MI · GEOID 26354802024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 24.4 min one way; 25.5% worked from home, 64.8% drove alone, and 3.5% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip24.4 min±4.3 min MOE
Worked from home25.5%±4.7 pp MOE
Drove alone64.8%±8.8 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.5%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 Grosse Pointe city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -0.2 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +4.7 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 Grosse Pointe city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 64.8%; 1.4% used public transit and 25.5% worked from home.
Each share uses 2,575 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Grosse Pointe city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 47th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 53% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 90% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 73% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 79% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Grosse Pointe city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 2,575 workers age 16+, including 1,919 workers with reported travel time and 656 home workers.
Population estimate5,541± 20 MOE
Workers age 16+2,575± 257 MOE
Workers with travel time1,919± 250 MOE
Estimated home workers656± 138 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 Michigan reports →Comparable Michigan commute records for Grosse Pointe city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.