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Commuting in Faribault, 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 Faribault: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Faribault spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 112 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 6.9 minutes.

Faribault holds about 0.4% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Faribault would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,388 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)
Faribault 13.4 min 26.9 min 112 hrs/yr $3,470 1,526
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.

Faribault Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.4 minutes to get to work in Faribault. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Faribault

  • Car: 87.0%
  • Worked at Home: 5.9%
  • Other: 2.7%
  • Walked: 2.3%
  • Bicycle: 1.4%
  • Taxi: 0.6%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Public transit is unusually rare in Faribault: 22.7 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 1.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Faribault, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Faribault 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 Other Walked Bicycle Taxi Public Transportation Motorcycle
2009 92.7% 1.5% 1.1% 2.6% 0.5% 0.2% 1.1% 0.4%
2010 91.4% 2.3% 1.7% 2.6% 0.4% 0.0% 1.1% 0.6%
2011 90.1% 2.9% 1.9% 2.7% 0.3% 0.0% 1.4% 0.7%
2012 90.4% 3.6% 2.3% 1.7% 0.1% 0.0% 1.3% 0.6%
2013 89.6% 3.3% 2.6% 2.4% 0.1% 0.0% 1.4% 0.6%
2014 90.4% 3.1% 2.0% 2.0% 0.1% 0.0% 1.5% 0.8%
2015 91.4% 2.3% 2.0% 2.1% 0.1% 0.0% 1.0% 1.0%
2016 92.9% 2.0% 1.1% 2.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.6% 1.0%
2017 93.2% 2.0% 1.0% 1.6% 0.3% 0.2% 0.7% 0.9%
2018 94.4% 1.6% 0.9% 1.4% 0.1% 0.3% 0.5% 0.8%
2019 94.3% 2.1% 0.8% 1.6% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3%
2020 94.4% 2.9% 0.5% 1.0% 0.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0%
2021 91.3% 4.2% 1.4% 1.6% 0.6% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0%
2022 90.2% 4.8% 1.7% 1.9% 0.8% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0%
2023 89.2% 5.4% 1.6% 1.9% 1.1% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0%
2024 87.0% 5.9% 2.7% 2.3% 1.4% 0.6% 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 2018 at 94.4%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 87.0% in 2024, down 5.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Faribault: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 5.9% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.1% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Faribault

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Faribault?

The bars show when commuters in Faribault 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
5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
9.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
10.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
7.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
10.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
12.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Faribault is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 12.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 20.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Minnesota: 35.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (34.8%) 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 Faribault, 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 Faribault 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 Faribault 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 Faribault Minnesota United States
2009 7:29 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:35 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:33 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:32 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:34 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:32 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:31 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:33 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:25 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:27 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:28 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:26 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:22 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:33 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:39 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:38 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Faribault were on the road by 7:38 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Faribault now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Faribault has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Faribault's commute time compare?

Metric Faribault Minnesota US Average
Avg. Commute Time 13.4 min 20.3 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 5.9% 17.6% 15.0%
Walked 2.3% 2.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.8% 3.2%

The average commute time in Faribault is 13.4 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 2.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Faribault, Minnesota.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 112 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,470 at a typical national wage. That's 34% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM in Faribault, Minnesota. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.

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

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 1.8% in Minnesota, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.