Ramsey Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Ramsey: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ramsey spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 223 hours, about 9.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Ramsey holds about 0.5% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ramsey would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,760 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)
Ramsey	26.7 min	53.4 min	223 hrs/yr	$6,899	1,239
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.

Ramsey Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.7 minutes to get to work in Ramsey. That's 19% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ramsey

• Car: 80.8%
• Worked at Home: 17.3%
• Public Transportation: 1.2%
• Other: 0.3%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Ramsey, versus 0.1% in Minnesota.

Walking is unusually rare in Ramsey: 7.3 times less than the Minnesota average (0.3% vs 2.5%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Ramsey: 18130667.2 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Ramsey: 5.8 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Ramsey: just 0.4%, 7.0 times below the Minnesota average of 3.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Ramsey, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ramsey 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
• Public Transportation
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.3%	3.1%	1.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	91.7%	5.4%	1.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	90.4%	6.1%	2.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	89.3%	6.4%	3.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	88.9%	7.0%	3.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	88.6%	6.7%	3.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	90.1%	4.7%	3.9%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	90.5%	4.7%	3.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	91.0%	4.7%	3.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	91.0%	4.6%	2.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	90.8%	5.2%	2.2%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	88.4%	8.1%	1.7%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	86.6%	10.9%	1.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	84.5%	12.8%	1.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.7%	14.8%	1.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.8%	17.3%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	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 94.3% in 2009 to 80.8% in 2024, down 13.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ramsey: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 17.3% in 2024, up 14.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit peaked at 3.9% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 1.2%.

Commute Start Times in Ramsey

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ramsey?

The bars show when commuters in Ramsey 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 Ramsey3.9% Minnesota5.0%	3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Ramsey7.0% Minnesota3.8%	7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Ramsey8.0% Minnesota5.2%	8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Ramsey14.3% Minnesota8.4%	14.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Ramsey10.7% Minnesota10.2%	10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Ramsey16.0% Minnesota14.8%	16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Ramsey10.7% Minnesota13.8%	10.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Ramsey8.5% Minnesota10.4%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Ramsey3.6% Minnesota4.7%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Ramsey3.3% Minnesota5.8%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Ramsey1.5% Minnesota2.7%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Ramsey1.8% Minnesota1.3%	1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Ramsey6.9% Minnesota8.2%	6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Ramsey3.7% Minnesota5.8%	3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ramsey is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are more common than in Minnesota: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Minnesota: 45.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Ramsey, 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 Ramsey 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 Ramsey 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.

• Ramsey
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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Ramsey	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ramsey were on the road by 7:11 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:13 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Ramsey now leave 27 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Ramsey's commute time compare?

Metric	Ramsey	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.7 min	20.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	17.3%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ramsey is 26.7 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

1.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau