Rosemount Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Rosemount, 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 Rosemount: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rosemount spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 200 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Minnesota average of 20.3 minutes each way, a difference of 3.7 minutes.

Rosemount holds about 0.5% of Minnesota's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rosemount would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,479 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)
Rosemount	24.0 min	48.0 min	200 hrs/yr	$6,198	2,405
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.

Rosemount Commute Map

On average, it takes 24.0 minutes to get to work in Rosemount. That's 7% longer 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 25.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rosemount

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Rosemount: 3.8 times less than the Minnesota average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Rosemount: 9.9 times less than the Minnesota average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Rosemount, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rosemount 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.7%	3.8%	0.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	92.8%	4.4%	0.6%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.2%	4.2%	1.1%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.4%	4.4%	0.9%	2.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	91.0%	4.2%	0.7%	3.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	90.1%	4.4%	0.7%	3.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	90.5%	4.5%	0.7%	3.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	89.7%	5.2%	0.7%	3.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	89.9%	5.6%	0.9%	2.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	90.5%	5.6%	0.9%	2.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	90.9%	5.7%	0.9%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	85.2%	11.2%	0.9%	2.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	81.9%	15.2%	0.4%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	78.0%	18.0%	1.4%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	74.8%	21.7%	1.5%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	71.7%	25.1%	1.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.7% in 2009 to 71.7% in 2024, down 22.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Rosemount: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 25.1% in 2024, up 21.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 19.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 3.7% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 1.0%.

Commute Start Times in Rosemount

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rosemount?

The bars show when commuters in Rosemount 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		2.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rosemount is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Minnesota. Early starts are about as common as in Minnesota: 14.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Minnesota's: 49.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.2%) 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 Rosemount, 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 Rosemount 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 Rosemount 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	Rosemount	Minnesota	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rosemount were on the road by 7:34 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Across Minnesota, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Rosemount now leave 4 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 Rosemount has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Rosemount's commute time compare?

Metric	Rosemount	Minnesota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	24.0 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	25.1%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	1.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rosemount is 24.0 minutes, longer than the 20.3 minutes in Minnesota.

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.8% in Minnesota. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Minnesota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Rosemount, MN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Rosemount, MN	27,562	24.0 min #3/3	25.1% #1/3	7:34 AM #1/3
Inver Grove Heights, MN	34,071	21.7 min	23.8%	7:38 AM
Eagan, MN	67,819	21.0 min	23.9%	7:53 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Rosemount, Minnesota.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 200 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,198 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical Minnesota commuter spends.

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

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

Is Rosemount, Minnesota a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 25.1% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Rosemount would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,479 at the same national wage assumption used above.