Lakeville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lakeville, 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 Lakeville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lakeville spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.

Lakeville holds about 1.3% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lakeville would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,345 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)
Lakeville	22.7 min	45.4 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,863	3,161
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.

Lakeville Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.7 minutes to get to work in Lakeville. That's 1% longer 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 23.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lakeville

Walking is unusually rare in Lakeville: 3.3 times less than the Minnesota average (0.8% vs 2.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Lakeville: 3.6 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Lakeville: just 0.9%, 3.3 times below the Minnesota average of 3.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lakeville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lakeville 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.0%	4.1%	2.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	92.1%	4.1%	2.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	91.4%	4.8%	2.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	91.6%	4.6%	2.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	91.4%	4.6%	2.4%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	91.3%	4.4%	2.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	90.3%	4.8%	3.1%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	90.2%	4.8%	3.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	88.9%	5.7%	3.4%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	89.0%	5.9%	3.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	88.0%	6.5%	3.3%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	85.3%	9.5%	3.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	81.1%	14.2%	2.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	78.7%	17.5%	2.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	75.8%	20.7%	2.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	74.0%	23.4%	1.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	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 2010 at 92.1%. Overall it fell from 92.0% in 2009 to 74.0% in 2024, down 18.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lakeville: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 23.4% in 2024, up 19.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.0% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lakeville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lakeville?

The bars show when commuters in Lakeville 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lakeville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% 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 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 4 commuters (24.2%) 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 Lakeville, 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 Lakeville 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 Lakeville 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	Lakeville	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 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 Lakeville were on the road by 7:38 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Lakeville 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 Lakeville has moved 10 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Lakeville in the whole series.

How does Lakeville's commute time compare?

Metric	Lakeville	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.7 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	23.4%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lakeville is 22.7 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lakeville, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Lakeville, MN is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 74,391 residents against a local median of 55,585. Nothing separates Lakeville, MN sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 5% above the local median at 23.4% against 22.3%. Lakeville, MN has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lakeville, MN	74,391	22.7 min #3/4	23.4% #1/4	7:38 AM #1/4
Apple Valley, MN	55,585	22.2 min	22.4%	7:44 AM
Burnsville, MN	64,463	21.6 min	17.0%	7:40 AM
Savage, MN	32,874	23.5 min	22.3%	7:45 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lakeville, Minnesota.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 189 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,863 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Lakeville, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lakeville, 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 Lakeville, Minnesota a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 23.4% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Lakeville would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,345 at the same national wage assumption used above.