Blaine Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Blaine, Minnesota: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Blaine: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Blaine spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Blaine holds about 1.3% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Blaine would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,372 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)
Blaine	23.0 min	45.9 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,929	2,770
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.

Blaine Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Blaine. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 20.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Blaine

Walking is unusually rare in Blaine: 5.4 times less than the Minnesota average (0.5% vs 2.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Blaine: 12.5 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Blaine: just 0.5%, 5.9 times below the Minnesota average of 3.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Blaine, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Blaine 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.2%	2.4%	3.4%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.4%
2010	92.3%	2.3%	3.6%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2011	91.7%	2.7%	3.8%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2012	92.4%	2.7%	3.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2013	92.1%	3.1%	3.3%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2014	92.5%	3.0%	3.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	92.3%	3.2%	3.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	91.5%	3.8%	3.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	90.8%	4.2%	3.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2018	90.2%	5.1%	3.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2019	88.9%	6.3%	3.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%
2020	86.1%	9.8%	2.7%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2021	83.2%	13.5%	1.9%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	80.3%	17.1%	1.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	77.9%	19.7%	1.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	77.4%	20.5%	0.7%	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 peaked in 2014 at 92.5%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 77.4% in 2024, down 14.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Blaine: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 20.5% in 2024, up 18.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.4% to 0.7% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Blaine

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Blaine?

The bars show when commuters in Blaine 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		5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Blaine is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Minnesota: 47.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.6%) 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 Blaine, 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 Blaine 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 Blaine 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Blaine	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Blaine were on the road by 7:35 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Blaine 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 Blaine has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Blaine in the whole series.

How does Blaine's commute time compare?

Metric	Blaine	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 min	20.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	20.5%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Blaine is 23.0 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Blaine, Minnesota.

Is commuting expensive in Blaine, Minnesota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 191 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,929 at a typical national wage. That's 13% more than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Blaine, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Blaine, Minnesota. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.