Commuting in Koochiching County, 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 Koochiching County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Koochiching County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 98 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 8.6 minutes.
Koochiching County holds about 0.2% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Koochiching County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,211 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)
Koochiching County
11.7 min
23.4 min
98 hrs/yr
$3,026
176
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.
On average, it takes
11.7
minutes to get to work in
Koochiching County.
That's 48% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 93% of counties in Minnesota
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.2% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Koochiching County
Car:
80.7%
Worked at Home:
12.2%
Walked:
4.2%
Other:
1.2%
Motorcycle:
0.6%unusually high
Bicycle:
0.6%
Public Transportation:
0.4%unusually low
Taxi:
0.2%
Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Koochiching County: 7.1 times more than the Minnesota average (0.6% vs 0.1%).
Public transit is unusually rare in Koochiching County: 4.2 times less than the Minnesota average (0.4% vs 1.8%).
Commute Mode Trends in Koochiching County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Koochiching 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
Motorcycle
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Taxi
2009
87.3%
3.5%
5.9%
1.2%
0.1%
1.3%
0.7%
0.0%
2010
88.0%
4.1%
5.3%
1.0%
0.2%
0.9%
0.5%
0.0%
2011
86.5%
5.0%
4.9%
1.5%
0.1%
1.4%
0.5%
0.0%
2012
85.3%
7.3%
3.8%
1.5%
0.2%
1.4%
0.5%
0.0%
2013
86.0%
6.4%
3.7%
1.8%
0.0%
0.6%
1.4%
0.0%
2014
86.5%
5.9%
3.7%
1.3%
0.1%
0.7%
1.8%
0.0%
2015
86.6%
5.5%
4.0%
1.0%
0.1%
0.9%
1.9%
0.0%
2016
86.2%
6.2%
4.5%
0.5%
0.2%
1.5%
0.9%
0.0%
2017
86.0%
4.2%
4.9%
1.2%
0.1%
2.1%
1.6%
0.0%
2018
84.5%
4.8%
5.9%
1.6%
0.1%
2.3%
0.8%
0.0%
2019
84.2%
5.7%
6.2%
1.6%
0.0%
1.8%
0.4%
0.0%
2020
82.1%
9.6%
5.0%
1.6%
0.0%
1.4%
0.3%
0.0%
2021
82.7%
9.4%
4.4%
1.5%
0.6%
0.9%
0.4%
0.0%
2022
83.4%
9.0%
4.4%
1.4%
0.6%
0.5%
0.5%
0.1%
2023
82.3%
10.2%
4.6%
1.3%
0.8%
0.4%
0.4%
0.1%
2024
80.7%
12.2%
4.2%
1.2%
0.6%
0.6%
0.4%
0.2%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 88.0%. Overall it fell from 87.3% in 2009 to 80.7% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Koochiching County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 12.2% in 2024, up 8.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.9% to 4.2% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.
Public transit peaked at 1.9% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.4%.
Commute Start Times in Koochiching County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Koochiching County?
The bars show when commuters in Koochiching 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 AMKoochiching County4.6%Minnesota5.0%
4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMKoochiching County5.3%Minnesota3.8%
5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMKoochiching County8.5%Minnesota5.2%
8.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMKoochiching County9.8%Minnesota8.4%
9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMKoochiching County13.5%Minnesota10.2%
13.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMKoochiching County8.2%Minnesota14.8%
8.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMKoochiching County18.1%Minnesota13.8%
18.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMKoochiching County7.8%Minnesota10.4%
7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMKoochiching County4.6%Minnesota4.7%
4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMKoochiching County6.3%Minnesota5.8%
6.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMKoochiching County1.3%Minnesota2.7%
1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMKoochiching County0.7%Minnesota1.3%
0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMKoochiching County7.3%Minnesota8.2%
7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMKoochiching County4.0%Minnesota5.8%
4.0%
Koochiching CountyMinnesotaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Koochiching County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 18.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Minnesota's: 47.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.6%) 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 Koochiching 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 Koochiching 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 Koochiching 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
Koochiching County
Minnesota
United States
2009
7:33 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:30 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:24 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:27 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:33 AM
7:36 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:38 AM
7:36 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:43 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:40 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:40 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:45 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:43 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:39 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:37 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:38 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:30 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:30 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Koochiching County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Koochiching County now leave 8 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 Koochiching County has moved 13 minutes earlier.
How does Koochiching County's commute time compare?
Metric
Koochiching County
Minnesota
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
11.7 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
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
12.2%
17.6%
15.0%
Walked
4.2%
2.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.4%
1.8%
3.2%
The average commute time in Koochiching County is 11.7 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.
0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 4.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.
Koochiching County, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Koochiching County, MN is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 11,832 residents against a local median of 41,614. Where Koochiching County, MN breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 31% below the local median of 16.9 min at 11.7 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.
Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 12.2% against a local median of 9.5%, 28% above it. The counties themselves spread 8.1 min on one-way commute, so Koochiching County, MN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Koochiching County, MN has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Koochiching County, Minnesota.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Koochiching County, Minnesota?
Commuters here spend an estimated 98 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,026 at a typical national wage. That's 42% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Koochiching County, Minnesota?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Koochiching County, 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.
Do people use public transit in Koochiching County, Minnesota?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.4% 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).