Grant County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grant County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grant County 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.

Grant County holds about 0.1% of Minnesota's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grant County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,252 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)
Grant County	21.8 min	43.6 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,629	196
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.

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

Slower than 78% of counties in Minnesota

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 14.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grant County

• Car: 80.0%
• Worked at Home: 14.6%
• Walked: 3.5%
• Other: 1.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Grant County, versus 0.1% in Minnesota.

Public transit is unusually rare in Grant County: 10.0 times less than the Minnesota average (0.2% vs 1.8%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Grant County: 3801652464.5 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Grant County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grant 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	81.6%	7.9%	5.9%	0.7%	3.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2010	82.5%	8.0%	5.5%	0.6%	2.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	84.6%	7.4%	5.6%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2012	84.5%	7.5%	5.5%	1.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2013	85.4%	5.6%	6.2%	1.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2014	86.1%	4.8%	6.9%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	85.5%	6.1%	6.6%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	86.2%	6.1%	6.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	86.9%	6.4%	5.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2018	85.6%	8.5%	4.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	85.8%	9.7%	3.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	83.2%	11.3%	3.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	81.8%	12.5%	4.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	81.5%	13.5%	3.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	81.1%	13.7%	3.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.0%	14.6%	3.5%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	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 2017 at 86.9%. Overall it fell from 81.6% in 2009 to 80.0% in 2024, down 1.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grant County: its share of workers rose from 7.9% in 2009 to 14.6% in 2024, up 6.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.3% to 0.2% of workers (down 3.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 6.9% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 3.5%.

Commute Start Times in Grant County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grant County?

The bars show when commuters in Grant 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	12:00-4:59 AM Grant County4.7% Minnesota5.0%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Grant County3.6% Minnesota3.8%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Grant County6.0% Minnesota5.2%	6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Grant County7.8% Minnesota8.4%	7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Grant County10.2% Minnesota10.2%	10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Grant County18.3% Minnesota14.8%	18.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Grant County16.9% Minnesota13.8%	16.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Grant County10.0% Minnesota10.4%	10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Grant County4.0% Minnesota4.7%	4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Grant County5.9% Minnesota5.8%	5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Grant County1.3% Minnesota2.7%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Grant County1.1% Minnesota1.3%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Grant County6.3% Minnesota8.2%	6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Grant County4.0% Minnesota5.8%	4.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grant County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 14.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 55.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.5%) 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 Grant 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 Grant 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 Grant 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Grant County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grant County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Grant County now leave 9 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 Grant County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Grant County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grant County	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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.6%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	3.5%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.8%	3.2%

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

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau