Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · MI · GEOID 26599202024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Oak Park, Michigan
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 23.3 min one way; 23.2% worked from home, 66.9% drove alone, and 3.5% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip23.3 min±2.7 min MOE
Worked from home23.2%±3.7 pp MOE
Drove alone66.9%±4.2 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 Oak Park city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +1.7 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +7.6 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 Oak Park city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 66.9%; 0.3% used public transit and 23.2% worked from home.
Each share uses 14,445 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Oak Park city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 36th percentile among covered 25k–100k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 64% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 83% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 71% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Oak Park city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 14,445 workers age 16+, including 11,094 workers with reported travel time and 3,351 home workers.
Population estimate29,318± 34 MOE
Workers age 16+14,445± 694 MOE
Workers with travel time11,094± 784 MOE
Estimated home workers3,351± 562 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 Oak Park city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.