Richfield Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Richfield, 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 Richfield: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Richfield spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Richfield holds about 0.6% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Richfield would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,170 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)
Richfield	21.0 min	42.0 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,426	2,308
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.

Richfield Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.0 minutes to get to work in Richfield. That's 6% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Richfield

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Richfield: 5.5 times more than the Minnesota average (1.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Richfield, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Richfield 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	85.4%	3.8%	5.8%	3.3%	0.3%	0.2%	1.0%	0.2%
2010	85.2%	3.2%	6.8%	3.0%	0.3%	0.2%	1.0%	0.2%
2011	84.6%	3.5%	7.7%	2.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%
2012	84.8%	2.9%	7.6%	3.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%
2013	83.7%	3.0%	8.1%	3.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%
2014	84.9%	2.8%	7.2%	3.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.4%
2015	84.9%	3.3%	7.1%	3.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.5%
2016	85.7%	3.0%	6.3%	3.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%
2017	84.7%	3.2%	7.2%	2.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.5%
2018	84.4%	3.2%	7.0%	3.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%
2019	82.9%	3.8%	7.5%	3.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%
2020	82.1%	6.0%	6.9%	3.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%
2021	78.6%	9.7%	6.4%	3.2%	1.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%
2022	75.1%	13.3%	5.3%	3.6%	1.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2023	74.9%	15.7%	4.3%	2.6%	1.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	72.2%	18.7%	3.5%	2.0%	1.9%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 85.7%. Overall it fell from 85.4% in 2009 to 72.2% in 2024, down 13.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Richfield: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 18.7% in 2024, up 14.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.8% to 3.5% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

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

Commute Start Times in Richfield

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Richfield?

The bars show when commuters in Richfield 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		5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Richfield is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% 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 looks much like Minnesota's: 47.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.5%) 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 Richfield, 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 Richfield 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 Richfield 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	Richfield	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:54 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:52 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:50 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:52 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:47 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:47 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:48 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:47 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Richfield were on the road by 7:47 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:46 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Richfield now leave 9 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Richfield's commute time compare?

Metric	Richfield	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.7%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.5%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Richfield is 21.0 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

3.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 2.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Richfield, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Richfield, MN is the smallest of the 6 cities compared here, 36,485 residents against a local median of 64,463. Where Richfield, MN breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 28% below the local median of 26.2% at 18.7%.

The cities themselves spread 12.2% on work from home, so Richfield, MN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Richfield, MN has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Richfield, MN	36,485	21.0 min #5/6	18.7% #5/6	7:47 AM #2/6
Bloomington, MN	88,700	18.9 min	22.3%	7:52 AM
Edina, MN	53,267	18.2 min	29.2%	8:01 AM
Minneapolis, MN	426,166	20.7 min	26.2%	8:10 AM
St. Louis Park, MN	49,539	18.7 min	28.1%	7:53 AM
Burnsville, MN	64,463	21.6 min	17.0%	7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Richfield, Minnesota.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 175 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,426 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Richfield, 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.