Marshall County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Marshall County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Marshall County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 167 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Marshall County holds about 0.2% of Minnesota's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Marshall County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,076 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)
Marshall County	20.1 min	40.2 min	167 hrs/yr	$5,191	519
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.

Commute Time Map: Minnesota Counties

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On average, it takes 20.1 minutes to get to work in Marshall County. That's 10% 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 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Marshall County

• Car: 84.5%
• Worked at Home: 10.0%
• Walked: 4.1%
• Other: 1.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is essentially absent in Marshall County, versus 1.8% in Minnesota.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Marshall County, versus 0.2% in Minnesota.

Biking is unusually rare in Marshall County: 19.5 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Marshall County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Marshall 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	88.2%	6.6%	3.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	88.6%	6.4%	3.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	87.7%	7.2%	3.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	86.8%	7.4%	3.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%
2013	87.4%	7.2%	3.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	87.5%	6.9%	3.5%	1.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	87.8%	7.3%	3.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	87.1%	7.7%	3.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	87.6%	8.0%	2.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	86.8%	9.2%	2.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	87.0%	10.1%	2.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	84.8%	12.0%	2.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	85.5%	11.5%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	84.4%	11.9%	2.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.6%	11.0%	3.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.5%	10.0%	4.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2010 at 88.6% and lowest in 2022 at 84.4%. Overall it fell from 88.2% in 2009 to 84.5% in 2024, down 3.7 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Marshall County: its share of workers rose from 6.6% in 2009 to 10.0% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points.

Working from home peaked at 12.0% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 10.0%.

Commute Start Times in Marshall County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Marshall County?

The bars show when commuters in Marshall 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 AM Marshall County7.5% Minnesota5.0%	7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Marshall County4.7% Minnesota3.8%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Marshall County3.5% Minnesota5.2%	3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Marshall County9.6% Minnesota8.4%	9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Marshall County11.8% Minnesota10.2%	11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Marshall County16.5% Minnesota14.8%	16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Marshall County19.6% Minnesota13.8%	19.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Marshall County10.4% Minnesota10.4%	10.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Marshall County2.5% Minnesota4.7%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Marshall County3.3% Minnesota5.8%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Marshall County1.7% Minnesota2.7%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Marshall County1.0% Minnesota1.3%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Marshall County5.0% Minnesota8.2%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Marshall County3.2% Minnesota5.8%	3.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Marshall County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 15.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 58.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.1%) 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 Marshall 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 Marshall 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 Marshall 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.

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• Minnesota
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Marshall County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Marshall County were on the road by 7:24 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Marshall County now leave 14 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Marshall County's commute time compare?

Metric	Marshall County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.1 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	10.0%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	4.1%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Marshall County is about the same as in Minnesota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 4.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau