Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · WI · GEOID 55530002024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 22.4 min one way; 12.9% worked from home, 66.3% drove alone, and 4.6% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip22.4 min±0.5 min MOE
Worked from home12.9%±0.6 pp MOE
Drove alone66.3%±0.9 pp MOE
60+ minute trip4.6%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 Milwaukee city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +0.1 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +5.2 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 Milwaukee city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 66.3%; 5.0% used public transit and 12.9% worked from home.
Each share uses 261,320 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Milwaukee city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 16th percentile among covered 500k+ places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 84% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 71% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 63% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Milwaukee city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 261,320 workers age 16+, including 227,572 workers with reported travel time and 33,748 home workers.
Population estimate566,973± 84 MOE
Workers age 16+261,320± 2,463 MOE
Workers with travel time227,572± 2,696 MOE
Estimated home workers33,748± 1,507 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 Milwaukee city
No other Wisconsin place in the 500k+ population band met the same publication rule in this dataset.