Maple Grove Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Maple Grove, 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 Maple Grove: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Maple Grove spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 186 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Maple Grove holds about 1.2% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Maple Grove would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,300 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)
Maple Grove	22.3 min	44.5 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,751	2,091
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.

Maple Grove Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.3 minutes to get to work in Maple Grove. That's 1% 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 29.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Maple Grove

Walking is unusually rare in Maple Grove: 3.4 times less than the Minnesota average (0.7% vs 2.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Maple Grove: 3.7 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Maple Grove: just 0.9%, 3.5 times below the Minnesota average of 3.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Maple Grove, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Maple Grove 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	90.6%	4.7%	3.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	90.3%	4.7%	3.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	90.3%	4.6%	3.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	90.4%	4.5%	3.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2013	90.2%	4.2%	4.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2014	90.1%	4.9%	3.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	90.0%	5.3%	3.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	89.9%	5.6%	3.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	88.8%	6.5%	3.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	87.9%	7.8%	2.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	87.6%	7.5%	3.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	81.2%	13.7%	3.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	78.5%	17.2%	3.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	74.8%	21.9%	2.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	72.4%	24.8%	1.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	68.4%	29.1%	1.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.6% in 2009 to 68.4% in 2024, down 22.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 12 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Maple Grove: its share of workers rose from 4.7% in 2009 to 29.1% in 2024, up 24.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 21.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.1% to 1.0% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Maple Grove

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Maple Grove?

The bars show when commuters in Maple Grove 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		3.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		17.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Maple Grove is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are less common than in Minnesota: 9.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 57.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Maple Grove, 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 Maple Grove 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 Maple Grove 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	Maple Grove	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:45 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Maple Grove were on the road by 7:46 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Maple Grove now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Maple Grove has moved 10 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Maple Grove in the whole series.

How does Maple Grove's commute time compare?

Metric	Maple Grove	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.3 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	29.1%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Maple Grove is 22.3 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Maple Grove, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Maple Grove, MN is the 2nd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 71,244 residents against a local median of 23,225. Where Maple Grove, MN breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 63% above the local median of 17.9% at 29.1%.

The cities themselves spread 12.7% on work from home, so Maple Grove, MN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Maple Grove, MN has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Maple Grove, MN	71,244	22.3 min #3/4	29.1% #1/4	7:45 AM #3/4
Plymouth, MN	79,324	21.6 min	28.8%	7:56 AM
Champlin, MN	23,225	23.2 min	17.9%	7:20 AM
New Hope, MN	20,969	20.4 min	16.1%	7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

Is living in Maple Grove, Minnesota good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,751 at a typical national wage. That's 10% more than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Maple Grove, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Maple Grove, 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.

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

About 29.1% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Maple Grove would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,300 at the same national wage assumption used above.