Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · WI · GEOID 55641002024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Portage, Wisconsin
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 22.1 min one way; 6.4% worked from home, 79.6% drove alone, and 4.0% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip22.1 min±3.0 min MOE
Worked from home6.4%±2.8 pp MOE
Drove alone79.6%±2.2 pp MOE
60+ minute trip4.0%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 Portage city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -1.8 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +4.1 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 Portage city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 79.6%; 0.6% used public transit and 6.4% worked from home.
Each share uses 4,789 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Portage city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 33th 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 67% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 78% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 59% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 74% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Portage city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 4,789 workers age 16+, including 4,481 workers with reported travel time and 308 home workers.
Population estimate10,236± 26 MOE
Workers age 16+4,789± 384 MOE
Workers with travel time4,481± 368 MOE
Estimated home workers308± 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 Wisconsin reports →Comparable Wisconsin commute records for Portage city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.