Redwood County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Redwood County, 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 Redwood County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Redwood County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 108 hours, about 4.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% less time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 7.4 minutes.

Redwood County holds about 0.2% of Minnesota's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Redwood County would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,333 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)
Redwood County	12.9 min	25.8 min	108 hrs/yr	$3,334	246
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

Redwood County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 12.9 minutes to get to work in Redwood County. That's 42% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 85% 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 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Redwood County

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

Biking is unusually rare in Redwood County: 6.6 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Redwood County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Redwood 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	85.2%	8.0%	5.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	85.3%	7.9%	5.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	85.8%	7.8%	5.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2012	85.1%	8.3%	5.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	86.2%	7.6%	4.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	86.3%	7.9%	4.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	85.1%	8.5%	4.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	84.6%	8.3%	4.9%	0.6%	1.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	84.7%	9.2%	4.3%	0.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	84.5%	9.9%	4.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	84.4%	9.5%	4.1%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	83.1%	11.1%	3.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	84.0%	10.7%	3.8%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	84.2%	10.5%	3.0%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	83.1%	10.9%	3.9%	1.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.7%	11.0%	4.3%	1.0%	0.8%	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 peaked in 2014 at 86.3%. Overall it fell from 85.2% in 2009 to 82.7% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Redwood County: its share of workers rose from 8.0% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 3.0 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 4.3% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Public transit overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Redwood County

Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Minnesota's 87 counties: 64.0% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Redwood County?

The bars show when commuters in Redwood 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		3.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		22.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Redwood County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 22.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 13.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Minnesota: 64.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.7%) 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 Redwood 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 Redwood 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 Redwood 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	Redwood County	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Redwood County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Redwood 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 Redwood County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Redwood County's commute time compare?

Metric	Redwood County	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.9 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	11.0%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	4.3%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Redwood County is 12.9 minutes, shorter than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 4.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Redwood County, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Redwood County, MN is typical in size for this group, 13,610 residents against a local median of 14,558, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Nothing separates Redwood County, MN sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 12% above the local median at 11.0% against 9.9%. Redwood County, MN has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Redwood County, MN	13,610	12.9 min #4/6	11.0% #2/6	7:29 AM #5/6
Cottonwood County, MN	11,447	10.9 min	10.7%	7:27 AM
Renville County, MN	14,558	16.5 min	8.2%	7:25 AM
Brown County, MN	25,800	10.6 min	7.3%	7:24 AM
Lyon County, MN	25,503	11.9 min	12.4%	7:34 AM
Murray County, MN	8,097	18.3 min	9.9%	7:22 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Redwood County, Minnesota.

Is living in Redwood County, Minnesota good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 108 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,334 at a typical national wage. That's 36% less than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Redwood County, Minnesota?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Redwood 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).