Bloomington Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bloomington, 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 Bloomington: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bloomington spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Bloomington holds about 1.5% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bloomington would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,948 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)
Bloomington	18.9 min	37.7 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,870	2,604
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.

Bloomington Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.9 minutes to get to work in Bloomington. That's 16% 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 22.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bloomington

Commute Mode Trends in Bloomington, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bloomington 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	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	89.1%	4.5%	3.4%	1.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	89.0%	4.3%	3.7%	1.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	89.0%	4.1%	3.8%	1.6%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	88.0%	4.6%	4.1%	1.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	88.0%	4.4%	4.3%	1.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	87.4%	4.5%	4.9%	1.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2015	87.1%	4.7%	4.7%	1.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%
2016	87.5%	4.7%	4.6%	1.6%	0.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	87.5%	4.3%	4.8%	1.3%	1.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2018	87.8%	4.3%	4.4%	1.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	88.2%	4.3%	3.6%	1.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%
2020	83.3%	9.0%	4.0%	1.5%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	80.4%	12.2%	3.8%	1.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2022	77.6%	15.1%	3.7%	1.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%
2023	73.6%	19.6%	3.7%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%
2024	70.5%	22.3%	4.2%	1.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 89.1% in 2009 to 70.5% in 2024, down 18.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bloomington: its share of workers rose from 4.5% in 2009 to 22.3% in 2024, up 17.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Bloomington

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bloomington?

The bars show when commuters in Bloomington 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		4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bloomington is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are less common than in Minnesota: 11.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Minnesota's: 48.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.6%) 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 Bloomington, 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 Bloomington 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 Bloomington 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	Bloomington	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:46 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:51 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:52 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:52 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bloomington were on the road by 7:52 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:42 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Bloomington now leave 14 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Bloomington has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Bloomington in the whole series.

How does Bloomington's commute time compare?

Metric	Bloomington	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.9 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	22.3%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.2%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bloomington is 18.9 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

4.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bloomington, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Bloomington, MN is the largest of the 6 cities compared here, 88,700 residents against a local median of 49,539. Bloomington, MN sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 10% below the local median at 18.9 min against 21.0 min. Bloomington, MN has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bloomington, MN	88,700	18.9 min #3/6	22.3% #4/6	7:52 AM #4/6
Richfield, MN	36,485	21.0 min	18.7%	7:47 AM
Burnsville, MN	64,463	21.6 min	17.0%	7:40 AM
Edina, MN	53,267	18.2 min	29.2%	8:01 AM
Savage, MN	32,874	23.5 min	22.3%	7:45 AM
St. Louis Park, MN	49,539	18.7 min	28.1%	7:53 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Is living in Bloomington, Minnesota good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 157 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,870 at a typical national wage. That's 7% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Bloomington, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Bloomington, Minnesota. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.