Hubbard County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Hubbard County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hubbard County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 150 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.3 minutes.

Hubbard County holds about 0.4% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hubbard County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,860 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)
Hubbard County	18.0 min	36.0 min	150 hrs/yr	$4,649	489
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

Hubbard County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.0 minutes to get to work in Hubbard County. That's 20% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 12.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hubbard County

Public transit is unusually rare in Hubbard County: 7.1 times less than the Minnesota average (0.2% vs 1.8%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hubbard County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hubbard 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	88.6%	5.4%	3.4%	0.9%	0.2%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	89.6%	6.2%	2.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	90.3%	6.2%	2.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	90.5%	5.8%	2.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	89.3%	6.0%	3.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.2%	6.0%	3.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	88.7%	6.1%	3.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	87.9%	6.9%	3.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	87.7%	6.7%	3.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.3%	7.2%	2.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.7%	7.5%	2.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	86.5%	9.6%	2.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	85.7%	10.2%	2.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	85.2%	11.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.2%	11.8%	1.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.9%	12.9%	2.2%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%	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 90.5%. Overall it fell from 88.6% in 2009 to 82.9% in 2024, down 5.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hubbard County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 12.9% in 2024, up 7.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Hubbard County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hubbard County?

The bars show when commuters in Hubbard 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		4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		17.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hubbard County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 15.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 52.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.6%) 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 Hubbard 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 Hubbard 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 Hubbard 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	Hubbard County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hubbard County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Hubbard County now leave 9 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Hubbard County in the whole series.

How does Hubbard County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hubbard County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.0 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	12.9%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hubbard County is 18.0 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Hubbard County, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Hubbard County, MN is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 21,828 residents against a local median of 30,992. Hubbard County, MN's work from home, at 12.9%, runs 54% above the 8.4% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 4.7% on work from home, so Hubbard County, MN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Hubbard County, MN has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Hubbard County, MN	21,828	18.0 min #4/6	12.9% #1/6	7:29 AM #3/6
Wadena County, MN	14,256	15.9 min	8.4%	7:19 AM
Cass County, MN	30,992	21.0 min	12.3%	7:33 AM
Clearwater County, MN	8,616	21.0 min	7.6%	7:28 AM
Becker County, MN	35,340	16.9 min	10.6%	7:35 AM
Beltrami County, MN	41,614	16.1 min	7.7%	7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hubbard County, Minnesota.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 150 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,649 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Hubbard 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.

Do people use public transit in Hubbard County, Minnesota?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.8% in Minnesota, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Minnesota have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).