Winneshiek County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Winneshiek County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Winneshiek County spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 126 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Winneshiek County holds about 0.6% of Iowa's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Winneshiek County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,569 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Winneshiek County	15.2 min	30.4 min	126 hrs/yr	$3,921	333
Iowa	17.0 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,382	606
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

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On average, it takes 15.2 minutes to get to work in Winneshiek County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Winneshiek County

• Car: 76.8%
• Worked at Home: 12.1%
• Walked: 9.6% unusually high
• Bicycle: 0.8%
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Winneshiek County, versus 0.1% in Iowa.

Walking is unusually common in Winneshiek County: 3.3 times more than the Iowa average (9.6% vs 2.9%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Winneshiek County: 6.1 times less than the Iowa average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Winneshiek County: 4.2 times less than the Iowa average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Winneshiek County stands out for active commuting: 10.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.2 times the Iowa average of 3.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Winneshiek County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Winneshiek County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	75.3%	8.3%	14.5%	0.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	72.9%	9.0%	16.1%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	72.6%	9.3%	15.7%	0.9%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	72.2%	9.3%	16.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	72.6%	8.7%	16.9%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	73.4%	8.2%	16.4%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	73.3%	8.4%	16.2%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	73.7%	8.7%	15.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	74.7%	9.0%	14.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	74.6%	9.1%	14.5%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	73.6%	9.9%	14.8%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	74.9%	10.1%	13.2%	0.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	75.1%	10.3%	13.3%	0.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	75.2%	11.2%	12.6%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	77.0%	11.5%	10.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	76.8%	12.1%	9.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2023 at 77.0% and lowest in 2012 at 72.2%. Overall it rose from 75.3% in 2009 to 76.8% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Winneshiek County: its share of workers rose from 8.3% in 2009 to 12.1% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 14.5% to 9.6% of workers (down 4.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Winneshiek County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Winneshiek County?

The bars show when commuters in Winneshiek County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Iowa for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Winneshiek County3.8% Iowa5.2%	3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Winneshiek County4.2% Iowa4.1%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Winneshiek County6.6% Iowa5.7%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Winneshiek County11.5% Iowa8.2%	11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Winneshiek County8.8% Iowa11.2%	8.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Winneshiek County15.4% Iowa15.1%	15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Winneshiek County16.3% Iowa15.6%	16.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Winneshiek County7.7% Iowa9.1%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Winneshiek County3.0% Iowa3.6%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Winneshiek County4.4% Iowa4.4%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Winneshiek County2.3% Iowa2.3%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Winneshiek County1.1% Iowa1.1%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Winneshiek County7.6% Iowa7.5%	7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Winneshiek County7.3% Iowa6.8%	7.3%

Winneshiek County Iowa Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Winneshiek County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.6% across Iowa. Early starts are about as common as in Iowa: 14.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Iowa: 48.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.6%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Winneshiek County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Winneshiek County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Winneshiek County next to Iowa and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Winneshiek County	Iowa	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Winneshiek County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). The shift is sharper than across Iowa, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Winneshiek County now leave 9 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Winneshiek County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Winneshiek County's commute time compare?

Metric	Winneshiek County	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.2 min	17.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.1%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	9.6%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Winneshiek County is 15.2 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Iowa.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 9.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau