Fridley Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Fridley, 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 Fridley: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fridley spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Fridley 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 Fridley would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,253 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)
Fridley	21.8 min	43.6 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,632	2,765
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.

Fridley Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.8 minutes to get to work in Fridley. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fridley

Biking is unusually rare in Fridley: 4.4 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Fridley, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fridley 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	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.9%	2.5%	5.0%	1.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	89.8%	2.7%	5.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	89.6%	2.9%	5.2%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	89.4%	2.2%	6.0%	1.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2013	88.6%	2.5%	5.5%	2.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.6%
2014	88.5%	2.8%	4.7%	3.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.6%
2015	88.3%	2.5%	4.6%	3.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%
2016	88.9%	2.5%	5.0%	2.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2017	88.3%	3.5%	4.8%	2.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2018	89.2%	3.3%	5.0%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2019	88.0%	3.4%	5.2%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2020	85.0%	7.0%	5.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	82.3%	10.6%	4.3%	1.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	81.5%	12.2%	3.6%	1.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	81.1%	13.6%	2.6%	1.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	79.4%	15.6%	2.1%	1.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 89.9% in 2009 to 79.4% in 2024, down 10.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fridley: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 15.6% in 2024, up 13.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.0% to 2.1% of workers (down 2.9 percentage points).

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

Walking peaked at 3.2% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Fridley

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fridley?

The bars show when commuters in Fridley 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		4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Fridley is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Minnesota: 44.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.1%) 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 Fridley, 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 Fridley 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 Fridley 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	Fridley	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fridley were on the road by 7:28 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Fridley now leave 10 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 Fridley has moved 17 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Fridley in the whole series.

How does Fridley's commute time compare?

Metric	Fridley	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.8 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.6%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.1%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fridley is 21.8 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

2.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Fridley, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Fridley, MN compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Fridley, MN	30,321	21.8 min #2/3	15.6% #3/3	7:28 AM #1/3
Columbia Heights, MN	22,385	22.3 min	18.0%	7:29 AM
New Brighton, MN	22,744	21.1 min	19.9%	7:41 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fridley, Minnesota.

Is commuting expensive in Fridley, Minnesota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 182 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,632 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Fridley, Minnesota. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.