Plymouth Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Plymouth, 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 Plymouth: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Plymouth spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Plymouth holds about 1.4% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Plymouth would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,231 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)
Plymouth	21.6 min	43.2 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,579	2,997
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.

Plymouth Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.6 minutes to get to work in Plymouth. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 28.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Plymouth

Biking is unusually rare in Plymouth: 16.2 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Plymouth, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Plymouth 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.5%	5.4%	2.7%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	88.1%	5.6%	3.1%	1.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%
2011	87.6%	5.9%	3.3%	1.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%
2012	87.8%	5.9%	3.4%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2013	88.6%	5.3%	3.5%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2014	88.5%	5.6%	3.4%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2015	88.6%	6.1%	3.2%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	87.8%	6.6%	3.5%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	87.9%	6.9%	3.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	87.4%	7.8%	3.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	87.8%	7.9%	2.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	83.1%	13.1%	2.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	78.2%	18.3%	1.3%	0.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	73.6%	23.2%	1.0%	0.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	71.0%	25.7%	1.1%	0.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	68.0%	28.8%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	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 89.5% in 2009 to 68.0% in 2024, down 21.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Plymouth: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 28.8% in 2024, up 23.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 20.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.0% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Plymouth

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Plymouth?

The bars show when commuters in Plymouth 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		2.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		20.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Plymouth is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 20.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.4% across Minnesota. Early starts are less common than in Minnesota: 6.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 60.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Plymouth, 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 Plymouth 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 Plymouth 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	Plymouth	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:50 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:56 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Plymouth were on the road by 7:56 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:43 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Plymouth now leave 18 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 Plymouth has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Plymouth in the whole series.

How does Plymouth's commute time compare?

Metric	Plymouth	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.6 min	20.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	28.8%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Plymouth is 21.6 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Plymouth, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Plymouth, MN compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Plymouth, MN	79,324	21.6 min #2/3	28.8% #2/3	7:56 AM #3/3
New Hope, MN	20,969	20.4 min	16.1%	7:37 AM
Maple Grove, MN	71,244	22.3 min	29.1%	7:45 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Plymouth, Minnesota.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Plymouth, Minnesota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 180 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,579 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Plymouth, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Plymouth, Minnesota. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much time do residents in Plymouth, Minnesota save by working from home?

About 28.8% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Plymouth would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,231 at the same national wage assumption used above.