Red Lake County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Red Lake County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Red Lake County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.7 minutes.

Red Lake 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 Red Lake County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,273 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)
Red Lake County	22.0 min	44.0 min	183 hrs/yr	$5,683	376
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.

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On average, it takes 22.0 minutes to get to work in Red Lake County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 79% of counties in Minnesota

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 10.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Red Lake County

• Car: 84.1%
• Worked at Home: 10.1%
• Walked: 4.9%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Red Lake County, versus 0.1% in Minnesota.

Public transit is unusually rare in Red Lake County: 8.7 times less than the Minnesota average (0.2% vs 1.8%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Red Lake County, versus 0.5% in Minnesota.

Commute Mode Trends in Red Lake County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Red Lake 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.3%	5.5%	5.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	87.3%	5.3%	6.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	88.3%	4.4%	6.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.0%	5.8%	5.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	89.8%	4.4%	5.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	89.4%	5.6%	4.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	89.3%	6.0%	4.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	89.6%	5.6%	4.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	91.4%	4.8%	3.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	90.7%	5.4%	3.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	90.5%	4.3%	4.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	88.1%	5.3%	6.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	85.0%	8.2%	5.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	84.4%	8.7%	6.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	85.0%	9.1%	5.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.1%	10.1%	4.9%	0.7%	0.2%	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 peaked in 2017 at 91.4%. Overall it fell from 88.3% in 2009 to 84.1% in 2024, down 4.2 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Red Lake County: its share of workers rose from 5.5% in 2009 to 10.1% in 2024, up 4.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.6% to 4.9% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Red Lake County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Red Lake County?

The bars show when commuters in Red Lake 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 Red Lake County3.8% Minnesota5.0%	3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Red Lake County6.5% Minnesota3.8%	6.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Red Lake County4.3% Minnesota5.2%	4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Red Lake County8.0% Minnesota8.4%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Red Lake County12.2% Minnesota10.2%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Red Lake County15.3% Minnesota14.8%	15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Red Lake County20.1% Minnesota13.8%	20.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Red Lake County8.9% Minnesota10.4%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Red Lake County1.8% Minnesota4.7%	1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Red Lake County2.4% Minnesota5.8%	2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Red Lake County1.1% Minnesota2.7%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Red Lake County0.1% Minnesota1.3%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Red Lake County10.4% Minnesota8.2%	10.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Red Lake County5.0% Minnesota5.8%	5.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Red Lake County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 14.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 56.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.1%) 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 Red Lake 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 Red Lake 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 Red Lake 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Red Lake County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Red Lake County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Red Lake County now leave 8 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 Red Lake County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Red Lake County's commute time compare?

Metric	Red Lake County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.0 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	10.1%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	4.9%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Red Lake County is 22.0 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 4.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau