Becker County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Becker County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Becker County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 141 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 3.4 minutes.

Becker County holds about 0.6% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Becker County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,749 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)
Becker County	16.9 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,374	504
Minnesota	20.3 min	40.6 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,249	854
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.

Commute Time Map: Minnesota Counties

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On average, it takes 16.9 minutes to get to work in Becker County. That's 24% 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 10.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Becker County

• Car: 84.9%
• Worked at Home: 10.6%
• Walked: 3.1%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Becker County: 3.4 times less than the Minnesota average (0.5% vs 1.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Becker County: 3.3 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Becker County: 18.9 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Becker County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Becker 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.8%	5.7%	4.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2010	89.0%	5.5%	3.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2011	88.6%	6.5%	3.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2012	88.9%	6.7%	2.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2013	89.4%	6.9%	2.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	88.9%	6.7%	2.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	1.0%
2015	88.6%	6.6%	2.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.9%
2016	88.4%	6.8%	2.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2017	87.8%	7.2%	3.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2018	87.3%	8.0%	3.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.8%
2019	87.2%	8.7%	2.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	86.4%	9.9%	2.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	85.9%	10.2%	3.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	85.3%	10.2%	3.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	84.4%	10.3%	3.5%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	84.9%	10.6%	3.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2013 at 89.4% and lowest in 2023 at 84.4%. Overall it fell from 88.8% in 2009 to 84.9% in 2024, down 3.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Becker County: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2024, up 4.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.0% to 3.1% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Becker County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Becker County?

The bars show when commuters in Becker 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 Minnesota for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Becker County5.8% Minnesota5.0%	5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Becker County3.0% Minnesota3.8%	3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Becker County5.0% Minnesota5.2%	5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Becker County6.8% Minnesota8.4%	6.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Becker County9.8% Minnesota10.2%	9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Becker County16.2% Minnesota14.8%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Becker County20.4% Minnesota13.8%	20.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Becker County10.6% Minnesota10.4%	10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Becker County2.9% Minnesota4.7%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Becker County5.3% Minnesota5.8%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Becker County1.8% Minnesota2.7%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Becker County1.3% Minnesota1.3%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Becker County7.0% Minnesota8.2%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Becker County4.1% Minnesota5.8%	4.1%

Becker County Minnesota Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Becker County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 57.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.4%) 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 Becker 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 Becker 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 Becker County next to Minnesota 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	Becker County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Becker County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Becker County now leave 3 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 Becker County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Becker County's commute time compare?

Metric	Becker County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.9 min	20.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.6%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	3.1%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Becker County is 16.9 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 3.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau