Goodhue County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Goodhue County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Goodhue County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Goodhue County holds about 0.8% of Minnesota's population and accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Goodhue County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,082 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)
Goodhue County	20.1 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,204	504
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

Goodhue County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.1 minutes to get to work in Goodhue County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Goodhue County

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Goodhue County: 4.4 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Goodhue County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Goodhue 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	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	89.1%	4.8%	4.1%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	88.9%	4.9%	4.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	89.1%	4.9%	3.6%	1.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	89.4%	5.0%	3.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	88.6%	5.4%	4.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	88.4%	5.3%	4.0%	1.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	88.9%	5.1%	3.8%	1.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	88.3%	5.2%	4.1%	1.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	88.5%	5.2%	3.9%	1.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	89.3%	5.2%	3.3%	1.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	89.0%	5.5%	3.3%	1.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	88.1%	7.1%	2.6%	1.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.5%	7.3%	2.2%	1.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	86.7%	9.0%	2.0%	1.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	85.6%	10.2%	2.2%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	85.1%	10.7%	2.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	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 2012 at 89.4%. Overall it fell from 89.1% in 2009 to 85.1% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Goodhue County: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 10.7% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.1% to 2.7% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Goodhue County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Goodhue County?

The bars show when commuters in Goodhue 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		7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Goodhue County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 21.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Minnesota: 44.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.2%) 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 Goodhue 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 Goodhue 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 Goodhue 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	Goodhue County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Goodhue County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Goodhue County now leave 19 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 Goodhue County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Goodhue County's commute time compare?

Metric	Goodhue County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.1 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.7%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	2.7%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Goodhue County is about the same as in Minnesota.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Goodhue County, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Goodhue County, MN is typical in size for this group, 47,943 residents against a local median of 42,584, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Goodhue County, MN breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 17% below the local median of 12.9% at 10.7%.

The counties themselves spread 9.9% on work from home, so Goodhue County, MN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Goodhue County, MN has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Goodhue County, MN	47,943	20.1 min #2/6	10.7% #6/6	7:18 AM #4/6
Dodge County, MN	21,046	23.5 min	12.9%	7:05 AM
Dakota County, MN	445,396	22.0 min	21.3%	7:38 AM
Pierce County, WI	42,584	23.7 min	12.8%	7:14 AM
Wabasha County, MN	21,565	22.8 min	11.4%	7:14 AM
Olmsted County, MN	164,423	16.2 min	15.4%	7:30 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Goodhue County, Minnesota.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Goodhue County, Minnesota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 168 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,204 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Goodhue County, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Goodhue County, 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.

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).