Brooklyn Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Brooklyn Park, 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 Brooklyn Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brooklyn Park spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Brooklyn Park holds about 1.5% of Minnesota's population and accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brooklyn Park would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,150 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)
Brooklyn Park	20.8 min	41.6 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,375	1,964
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.

Brooklyn Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Brooklyn Park. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brooklyn Park

Walking is unusually rare in Brooklyn Park: 3.0 times less than the Minnesota average (0.8% vs 2.5%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Brooklyn Park: 3.5 times more than the Minnesota average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Brooklyn Park: 10.7 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Brooklyn Park: just 0.9%, 3.4 times below the Minnesota average of 3.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Brooklyn Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brooklyn Park 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	89.1%	3.7%	5.2%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	89.6%	3.5%	5.1%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	89.3%	3.5%	5.4%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	89.0%	3.4%	5.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	88.8%	3.4%	5.4%	1.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	89.7%	2.6%	5.0%	1.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	89.0%	3.0%	5.2%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	89.1%	3.4%	4.9%	1.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	87.8%	3.9%	6.0%	0.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	89.1%	3.9%	5.5%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	89.2%	4.0%	5.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	88.3%	6.0%	4.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	84.7%	8.8%	4.6%	0.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	83.9%	10.5%	3.6%	0.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	81.6%	12.5%	2.8%	1.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	79.9%	14.9%	1.9%	1.5%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	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 89.7%. Overall it fell from 89.1% in 2009 to 79.9% in 2024, down 9.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Brooklyn Park: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 14.9% in 2024, up 11.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 1.9% of workers (down 3.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Brooklyn Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brooklyn Park?

The bars show when commuters in Brooklyn Park 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		7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brooklyn Park is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 11.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 14.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Minnesota: 42.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.3%) 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 Brooklyn Park, 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 Brooklyn Park 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 Brooklyn Park 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	Brooklyn Park	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:47 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brooklyn Park were on the road by 7:47 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Brooklyn Park now leave 9 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 Brooklyn Park has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Brooklyn Park in the whole series.

How does Brooklyn Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Brooklyn Park	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.9%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.9%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brooklyn Park is 20.8 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

1.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Brooklyn Park, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Brooklyn Park, MN is the largest of the 5 cities compared here, 83,850 residents against a local median of 27,858. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Brooklyn Park, MN an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 5% below the local median at 14.9% against 15.8%. Brooklyn Park, MN has the 3rd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Brooklyn Park, MN	83,850	20.8 min #2/5	14.9% #3/5	7:47 AM #5/5
Brooklyn Center, MN	32,490	21.2 min	13.1%	7:41 AM
Champlin, MN	23,225	23.2 min	17.9%	7:20 AM
Crystal, MN	22,688	20.4 min	21.5%	7:41 AM
Coon Rapids, MN	63,456	22.2 min	13.7%	7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,375 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

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

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