Lino Lakes Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lino Lakes: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lino Lakes spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 211 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Lino Lakes holds about 0.4% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lino Lakes would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,618 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)
Lino Lakes	25.3 min	50.7 min	211 hrs/yr	$6,546	1,792
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.

Lino Lakes Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.3 minutes to get to work in Lino Lakes. That's 13% 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 22.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lino Lakes

• Car: 75.2%
• Worked at Home: 22.6%
• Other: 1.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Lino Lakes: 6.0 times less than the Minnesota average (0.4% vs 2.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Lino Lakes: 3.3 times less than the Minnesota average (0.5% vs 1.8%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Lino Lakes, versus 0.2% in Minnesota.

Biking is essentially absent in Lino Lakes, versus 0.5% in Minnesota.

Few people walk or bike to work in Lino Lakes: just 0.4%, 7.2 times below the Minnesota average of 3.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lino Lakes, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lino Lakes 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.7%	3.9%	0.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	93.0%	4.1%	0.1%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	92.7%	4.1%	0.1%	1.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	93.1%	3.4%	0.2%	2.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	90.8%	5.3%	0.3%	2.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	90.8%	5.5%	0.3%	2.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	91.3%	4.9%	0.3%	2.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	90.9%	5.0%	0.3%	2.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	90.9%	5.4%	0.4%	2.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	92.4%	4.3%	0.4%	2.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	90.4%	5.6%	0.3%	2.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	86.6%	9.8%	0.5%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	82.5%	13.9%	1.1%	2.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	79.5%	17.4%	1.1%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	76.6%	20.2%	0.9%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	75.2%	22.6%	1.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.7% in 2009 to 75.2% in 2024, down 18.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lino Lakes: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 22.6% in 2024, up 18.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lino Lakes

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lino Lakes?

The bars show when commuters in Lino Lakes 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 Lino Lakes3.6% Minnesota5.0%	3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lino Lakes5.0% Minnesota3.8%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lino Lakes6.3% Minnesota5.2%	6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lino Lakes8.0% Minnesota8.4%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lino Lakes12.7% Minnesota10.2%	12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lino Lakes15.8% Minnesota14.8%	15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lino Lakes13.7% Minnesota13.8%	13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lino Lakes12.3% Minnesota10.4%	12.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lino Lakes5.1% Minnesota4.7%	5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lino Lakes8.0% Minnesota5.8%	8.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lino Lakes1.9% Minnesota2.7%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lino Lakes0.4% Minnesota1.3%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lino Lakes3.5% Minnesota8.2%	3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lino Lakes3.6% Minnesota5.8%	3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lino Lakes is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 15.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 54.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.5%) 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 Lino Lakes, 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 Lino Lakes 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 Lino Lakes 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.

• Lino Lakes
• Minnesota
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lino Lakes	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lino Lakes were on the road by 7:27 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:21 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Lino Lakes now leave 11 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 Lino Lakes has moved 4 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Lino Lakes in the whole series.

How does Lino Lakes's commute time compare?

Metric	Lino Lakes	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.3 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	22.6%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lino Lakes is 25.3 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau