Inver Grove Heights Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Inver Grove Heights, 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 Inver Grove Heights: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Inver Grove Heights spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 hours, about 7.5 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 1.3 minutes.

Inver Grove Heights holds about 0.6% of Minnesota's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Inver Grove Heights would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,237 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)
Inver Grove Heights	21.7 min	43.3 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,594	1,537
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.

Inver Grove Heights Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.7 minutes to get to work in Inver Grove Heights. 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 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 23.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Inver Grove Heights

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Inver Grove Heights: 3.5 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Inver Grove Heights, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Inver Grove Heights 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.9%	3.5%	2.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	92.9%	3.4%	2.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	92.8%	3.5%	1.9%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	91.6%	4.2%	2.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	91.4%	4.3%	2.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	90.0%	4.0%	2.4%	2.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	90.4%	3.9%	2.3%	2.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	89.8%	4.7%	2.0%	2.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	90.6%	4.0%	2.2%	2.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	90.6%	3.9%	1.8%	2.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	90.1%	4.9%	1.9%	2.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	84.4%	8.7%	3.2%	2.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	81.2%	13.0%	2.6%	1.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	75.3%	19.0%	2.6%	1.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	72.8%	21.9%	2.1%	1.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	71.8%	23.8%	1.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 71.8% in 2024, down 21.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Inver Grove Heights: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 23.8% in 2024, up 20.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit peaked at 3.2% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 1.8%.

Commute Start Times in Inver Grove Heights

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Inver Grove Heights?

The bars show when commuters in Inver Grove Heights 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		3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

Inver Grove Heights Minnesota Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Inver Grove Heights is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are less common than in Minnesota: 12.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Minnesota's: 50.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Inver Grove Heights, 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 Inver Grove Heights 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 Inver Grove Heights 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	Inver Grove Heights	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Inver Grove Heights were on the road by 7:38 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Inver Grove Heights now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Inver Grove Heights has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Inver Grove Heights's commute time compare?

Metric	Inver Grove Heights	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.7 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	23.8%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.8%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Inver Grove Heights is 21.7 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Minnesota. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Inver Grove Heights, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Inver Grove Heights, MN compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Inver Grove Heights, MN	34,071	21.7 min #2/3	23.8% #2/3	7:38 AM #3/3
South St. Paul, MN	21,076	20.7 min	14.7%	7:25 AM
Rosemount, MN	27,562	24.0 min	25.1%	7:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.

Is commuting expensive in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 180 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,594 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 Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Inver Grove Heights, 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.

Is Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 23.8% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Inver Grove Heights would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,237 at the same national wage assumption used above.