Edina Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Edina, 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 Edina: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Edina spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Edina holds about 0.9% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Edina would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,884 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)
Edina	18.2 min	36.5 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,710	2,543
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.

Edina Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.2 minutes to get to work in Edina. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 29.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Edina

Public transit is unusually rare in Edina: 5.7 times less than the Minnesota average (0.3% vs 1.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Edina, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Edina 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	85.7%	7.1%	2.3%	1.0%	3.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	84.5%	8.0%	2.3%	1.1%	3.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	84.5%	7.5%	2.0%	1.2%	3.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	84.6%	7.4%	1.9%	1.3%	3.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	84.6%	8.5%	1.5%	1.1%	3.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	85.3%	8.0%	1.5%	0.9%	3.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	85.8%	7.9%	1.6%	0.6%	3.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	85.8%	8.3%	1.5%	0.5%	3.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	86.2%	8.1%	1.4%	0.4%	3.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	84.6%	8.6%	1.8%	0.5%	3.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	84.7%	8.8%	1.8%	0.6%	3.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	82.0%	12.3%	1.6%	0.5%	2.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	76.9%	18.7%	1.6%	0.6%	1.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	73.8%	22.4%	1.2%	0.6%	1.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	71.0%	25.4%	1.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	67.4%	29.2%	1.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 86.2%. Overall it fell from 85.7% in 2009 to 67.4% in 2024, down 18.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Edina: its share of workers rose from 7.1% in 2009 to 29.2% in 2024, up 22.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 20.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 0.3% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Edina

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Edina?

The bars show when commuters in Edina 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		1.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		17.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Edina is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.4% across Minnesota. Early starts are less common than in Minnesota: 4.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 57.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.8%) 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 Edina, 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 Edina 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 Edina 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	Edina	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:56 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:53 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:52 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:50 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:54 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:55 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:54 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:55 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:56 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:54 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:56 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:58 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:57 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:01 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Edina were on the road by 8:01 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:56 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Edina now leave 23 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 Edina has moved 5 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Edina in the whole series.

How does Edina's commute time compare?

Metric	Edina	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 min	20.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	29.2%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Edina is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Edina, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Edina, MN is the 2nd largest of the 5 cities compared here, 53,267 residents against a local median of 43,012. Edina, MN's work from home, at 29.2%, runs 16% above the 25.2% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 10.8% on work from home, so Edina, MN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Edina, MN has the 2nd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Edina, MN	53,267	18.2 min #1/5	29.2% #2/5	8:01 AM #5/5
St. Louis Park, MN	49,539	18.7 min	28.1%	7:53 AM
Bloomington, MN	88,700	18.9 min	22.3%	7:52 AM
Richfield, MN	36,485	21.0 min	18.7%	7:47 AM
Golden Valley, MN	21,735	20.4 min	29.5%	8:00 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Edina, Minnesota.

Is commuting expensive in Edina, Minnesota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 152 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,710 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Edina, 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Edina, Minnesota?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 1.8% in Minnesota, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How much time do residents in Edina, Minnesota save by working from home?

About 29.2% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Edina would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,884 at the same national wage assumption used above.