Norman County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Norman County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Norman County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 142 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 3.3 minutes.

Norman County holds about 0.1% of Minnesota's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Norman County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,761 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)
Norman County	17.0 min	34.1 min	142 hrs/yr	$4,403	327
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Minnesota

Brown County (10.6 min)
Pennington County (10.8 min)
Cottonwood County (10.9 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Minnesota

Chisago County (30.9 min)
Wright County (28.8 min)
Sherburne County (28.8 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Norman County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.0 minutes to get to work in Norman County. That's 24% 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 walking. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Norman County

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Norman County: 3.1 times less than the Minnesota average (5.8% vs 17.6%).

Biking is unusually rare in Norman County: 3.5 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Norman County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Norman 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.

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	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	83.3%	5.0%	10.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	83.0%	5.1%	10.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	84.4%	5.5%	8.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	84.1%	5.2%	9.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%
2013	84.7%	3.7%	10.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	86.1%	3.5%	9.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%
2015	85.6%	4.2%	8.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%
2016	86.0%	4.4%	7.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%
2017	86.9%	3.8%	7.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%
2018	86.3%	3.8%	7.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%
2019	85.8%	4.2%	7.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2020	86.1%	5.1%	6.8%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2021	86.1%	5.9%	6.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2022	85.7%	6.6%	5.9%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2023	85.4%	7.4%	5.6%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	84.9%	7.3%	5.8%	0.9%	0.9%	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 was highest in 2017 at 86.9% and lowest in 2010 at 83.0%. Overall it rose from 83.3% in 2009 to 84.9% in 2024, up 1.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Norman County: its share of workers rose from 5.0% in 2009 to 7.3% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 10.5% to 5.8% of workers (down 4.7 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Norman County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Norman County?

The bars show when commuters in Norman 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		22.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Norman County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 22.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are less common than in Minnesota: 12.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 60.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.8%) 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 Norman 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 Norman 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 Norman 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Norman County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Norman County were on the road by 7:33 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Norman County now leave 5 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 Norman County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Norman County's commute time compare?

Metric	Norman County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.0 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	5.8%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	7.3%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Norman County is 17.0 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 7.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Norman County, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Norman County, MN is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 6,367 residents against a local median of 7,970. Norman County, MN sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 13% below the local median at 5.8% against 6.6%. Norman County, MN has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Norman County, MN	6,367	17.0 min #4/6	5.8% #5/6	7:33 AM #3/6
Clay County, MN	66,074	17.2 min	11.8%	7:38 AM
Polk County, MN	30,705	13.7 min	5.8%	7:37 AM
Mahnomen County, MN	5,358	16.1 min	6.6%	7:38 AM
Red Lake County, MN	3,915	22.0 min	10.1%	7:30 AM
Traill County, ND	7,970	14.0 min	5.5%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Norman County, Minnesota.

Is commuting expensive in Norman County, Minnesota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 142 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,403 at a typical national wage. That's 16% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Norman County, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Norman County, 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.

Which counties in Minnesota have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Minnesota, the shortest average commutes are in Brown County (10.6 min), Pennington County (10.8 min), Cottonwood County (10.9 min). The longest are in Chisago County (30.9 min), Wright County (28.8 min), Sherburne County (28.8 min).