New Hope Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in New Hope, 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 New Hope: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in New Hope spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 170 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

New Hope holds about 0.4% of Minnesota's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in New Hope would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,111 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)
New Hope	20.4 min	40.9 min	170 hrs/yr	$5,278	1,939
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.

New Hope Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.4 minutes to get to work in New Hope. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in New Hope

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in New Hope: 3.9 times more than the Minnesota average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in New Hope: 3.0 times more than the Minnesota average (0.6% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in New Hope, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in New Hope 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.4%	3.3%	2.5%	0.8%	2.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.8%
2010	89.2%	3.7%	2.7%	0.8%	2.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.8%
2011	90.4%	3.2%	1.5%	1.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%
2012	89.9%	3.2%	1.6%	0.8%	3.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%
2013	89.8%	3.0%	1.7%	0.7%	4.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2014	89.8%	2.3%	2.1%	0.3%	4.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2015	88.0%	1.9%	2.2%	0.4%	6.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2016	89.7%	2.3%	2.1%	0.2%	4.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2017	89.8%	2.9%	2.0%	0.2%	4.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2018	88.4%	3.4%	2.3%	0.2%	4.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.5%
2019	88.7%	4.0%	2.6%	0.4%	3.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	88.1%	6.1%	2.5%	0.7%	2.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	84.2%	9.6%	2.5%	0.7%	2.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	82.8%	11.3%	2.3%	0.7%	2.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	81.3%	14.0%	1.5%	0.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%
2024	79.2%	16.1%	1.5%	1.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 90.4%. Overall it fell from 89.4% in 2009 to 79.2% in 2024, down 10.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in New Hope: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 16.1% in 2024, up 12.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 0.7% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in New Hope

What Time Do People Leave for Work in New Hope?

The bars show when commuters in New Hope 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		4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in New Hope is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 12.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 17.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Minnesota: 41.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.2%) 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 New Hope, 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 New Hope 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 New Hope 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	New Hope	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:47 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:50 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:48 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:48 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in New Hope were on the road by 7:37 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in New Hope now leave 1 minute 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 New Hope has moved 13 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for New Hope in the whole series.

How does New Hope's commute time compare?

Metric	New Hope	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.4 min	20.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.1%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in New Hope is about the same as in Minnesota.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

New Hope, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

New Hope, MN is typical in size for this group, 20,969 residents against a local median of 22,688, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. New Hope, MN's work from home, at 16.1%, runs 44% below the 28.8% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 8.0% on work from home, so New Hope, MN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. New Hope, MN has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
New Hope, MN	20,969	20.4 min #3/4	16.1% #4/4	7:37 AM #1/4
Crystal, MN	22,688	20.4 min	21.5%	7:41 AM
Golden Valley, MN	21,735	20.4 min	29.5%	8:00 AM
Plymouth, MN	79,324	21.6 min	28.8%	7:56 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in New Hope, Minnesota.

Is living in New Hope, Minnesota good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 170 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,278 at a typical national wage. That's 1% more than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in New Hope, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in New Hope, Minnesota. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.