Faribault County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Faribault County, 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 County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Faribault County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Faribault County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,576 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 County	15.3 min	30.5 min	127 hrs/yr	$3,940	273
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Minnesota

Brown County (10.6 min)
Pennington County (10.8 min)
Cottonwood County (10.9 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Minnesota

Chisago County (30.9 min)
Wright County (28.8 min)
Sherburne County (28.8 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Faribault County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.3 minutes to get to work in Faribault County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 71% 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 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Faribault County

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Faribault County, versus 0.2% in Minnesota.

Biking is unusually rare in Faribault County: 5.2 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Faribault County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Faribault 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.

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	87.9%	6.2%	4.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	87.9%	6.9%	3.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	86.5%	7.4%	4.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	87.1%	7.2%	4.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	87.4%	7.1%	4.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	86.5%	7.7%	4.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	87.0%	7.3%	4.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	88.3%	6.8%	3.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	88.4%	6.6%	4.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.3%	7.4%	3.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.7%	7.0%	3.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.3%	7.8%	3.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.5%	8.4%	3.8%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.9%	8.0%	3.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.6%	8.6%	5.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.2%	8.2%	5.5%	1.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 88.7%. Overall it fell from 87.9% in 2009 to 84.2% in 2024, down 3.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Faribault County: its share of workers rose from 6.2% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Faribault County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Faribault County?

The bars show when commuters in Faribault 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		5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Faribault County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 13.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 55.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.1%) 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 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 Faribault 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 Faribault 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Faribault County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Faribault County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:30 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Faribault County now leave 7 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 Faribault County has moved 9 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Faribault County in the whole series.

How does Faribault County's commute time compare?

Metric	Faribault County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.3 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	8.2%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	5.5%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Faribault County is 15.3 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 5.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Faribault County, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Faribault County, MN is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 13,914 residents against a local median of 18,885. Faribault County, 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 counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 15% above the local median at 8.2% against 7.2%. Faribault County, MN has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Faribault County, MN	13,914	15.3 min #4/6	8.2% #2/6	7:31 AM #5/6
Winnebago County, IA	10,583	11.0 min	6.5%	7:29 AM
Blue Earth County, MN	69,837	13.6 min	8.5%	7:42 AM
Waseca County, MN	18,885	20.7 min	7.0%	7:19 AM
Kossuth County, IA	14,516	12.4 min	7.2%	7:18 AM
Freeborn County, MN	30,623	15.7 min	7.6%	7:30 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Faribault County, Minnesota.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Faribault County, Minnesota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 127 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,940 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Faribault County, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Faribault County, 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Minnesota?

Among counties in Minnesota, the shortest average commutes are in Brown County (10.6 min), Pennington County (10.8 min), Cottonwood County (10.9 min). The longest are in Chisago County (30.9 min), Wright County (28.8 min), Sherburne County (28.8 min).