Cass County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cass County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cass County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cass County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,165 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)
Cass County	21.0 min	41.9 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,412	450
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 21.0 minutes to get to work in Cass County. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 74% of counties in Minnesota

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 12.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cass County

• Car: 82.9%
• Worked at Home: 12.3%
• Walked: 2.5%
• Other: 1.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Cass County: 4.5 times less than the Minnesota average (0.4% vs 1.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Cass County: 264200795.1 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Cass County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cass 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
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	83.0%	9.0%	4.1%	1.1%	2.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	85.3%	7.9%	4.0%	1.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2011	84.8%	8.2%	4.1%	0.8%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%
2012	86.3%	7.2%	3.7%	0.9%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	85.7%	7.8%	3.6%	1.2%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	85.8%	7.8%	3.6%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	86.4%	7.9%	3.4%	1.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	87.2%	7.6%	2.8%	1.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	86.8%	8.0%	2.6%	1.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	87.0%	8.2%	2.5%	1.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	86.9%	7.8%	3.2%	1.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	86.2%	8.1%	3.6%	1.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	84.2%	9.6%	3.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	83.8%	9.9%	3.7%	1.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	83.2%	10.8%	3.5%	1.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	82.9%	12.3%	2.5%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	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 2016 at 87.2%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 83.0% in 2009 and 82.9% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cass County: its share of workers rose from 9.0% in 2009 to 12.3% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Cass County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cass County?

The bars show when commuters in Cass 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 Cass County4.9% Minnesota5.0%	4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cass County4.8% Minnesota3.8%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cass County4.9% Minnesota5.2%	4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cass County8.3% Minnesota8.4%	8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cass County8.6% Minnesota10.2%	8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cass County16.5% Minnesota14.8%	16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cass County18.2% Minnesota13.8%	18.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cass County10.6% Minnesota10.4%	10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cass County2.7% Minnesota4.7%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cass County5.2% Minnesota5.8%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cass County1.9% Minnesota2.7%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cass County1.3% Minnesota1.3%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cass County7.2% Minnesota8.2%	7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cass County4.9% Minnesota5.8%	4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cass County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 14.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 53.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.6%) 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 Cass 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 Cass 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 Cass 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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• Minnesota
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cass County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cass County were on the road by 7:33 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Cass County now leave 4 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 Cass County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Cass County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cass County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 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	12.3%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cass County is 21.0 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau